The Cambias Digression

Notes and thoughts on everything from what I had for breakfast to the fate of the Universe.

  • Ozblogging: The Wizard of Oz, Part 2

    Episode II:  Incidents of Travel in Oz Dorothy's journey to the Emerald City is about what you remember from the movie. Yellow brick road, finds Scarecrow, finds Tin Woodman, meets Cowardly Lion. Sure, the Wizard can help you, off we go. The Cowardly Lion is a really big lion, presumably born in the usual way…

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  • OzBlogging: The Wizard of Oz, part 1

    Ozblogging:  this is the first in an irregular series of posts about L. Frank Baum's Oz books. I think Baum is unjustly neglected as a fantasy writer — though I also recognize his considerable shortcomings. These little essays are not heavy literary criticism. I'm not going digging for complicated and unlikely interpretations of the books…

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  • How I Did It #1: A Diagram of Rapture

    "A Diagram of Rapture" is the first story I ever sold professionally. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in April of 2000, and began my regular run in that magazine. If you haven't read it, here's a brief summary:

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  • A Fresh Pot

    This is the maiden post of my new Web log. I contribute to another 'blog, the mighty Science Made Cool, but I wanted a place to write about books and writing, promote my own work, release old stuff which will never get reprinted, and generally gas about whatever I feel like. In particular, I plan…

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