Tag Archives: tempus the parrot-ox

I Like Birds

When I linked to my last Oz post on Facebook, people gave a few more examples of birds I hadn’t mentioned, including some people turned into birds and other birds from authors outside the Famous Forty. I believe the first … Continue reading

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Gee-Whiz, More Oz!

I am now the proud owner of the 2014 Oziana, the fiction magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club. This issue contains six stories about Oz, starting with David Tai and Jared Davis‘ “Lost and Never Found,” in which … Continue reading

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Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me

The theme of time travel is so prevalent in fiction and general speculation these days that it surprises me a little how recent it really is. I guess part of it is because the idea of time as something through … Continue reading

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Tempus in a Teapot

Getting back to apocryphal Oz characters who seem to have gained a marginal amount of fame, we now turn to Tempus the Parrot-Ox. We meet this character in Edward Einhorn‘s Paradox in Oz, one of the most popular Oz books … Continue reading

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