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By damn, there it is at last, making a cranky debut as a Globe book reviewer. (Yes, it's a bit of a thrill.)

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Re: Shared worlds

[paul-carlson.livejournal.com]

My sisters and I read several of the Oz books as children, and watched the movie countless times.

"Oz" became one of the first popular Fantasy-genre series, and when Baum passed away, quickly became a shared-world one as well, as Ruth Thompson then other authors took up that official mantle.

As it's passed out of copyright, the whole thing has become a free-for-all.

BTW, there's a great made-for-TV biopic starring John Ritter as L. Frank Baum.