Giving Target by Mike Shepherd a go. I liked the Longknife series so thought I'd give the spin off a go.
Yeah, I have both Trot books from Dover; they were still in print as of a couple years ago when I bought them. My copies of the rest are a mix of Dovers (Ix, Mo) and Books of Wonder (Merryland, Master Key, Yew). Oh, and there's a Puffin of Santa Claus, I think.I have all the Del Rey Oz editions from when I was a kid, but Dover Publications sells reprints of the original editions of most of Baum's works, both Oz and non-Oz. According to their website, a few are no longer sold in print form but are available as e-books (though my wife is a genius at finding used books online and found me a bunch of the print versions for Christmas). Many of Dover's Baum editions have an introduction by Martin Gardner giving interesting historical background on each book.
And yes, Trot and Cap'n Bill originated in The Sea Fairies and Sky Island (Button-Bright joins them on an adventure in the latter, though for some reason he's much more articulate than in the Oz books!). According to Baum's preface to The Scarecrow of Oz, young readers' letters convinced him to bring them both to Oz. They pass through the Land of Mo (from Baum's The Magical Monarch of Mo) along the way. I guess Baum had the concept of a "shared universe" down long before it became popular.
I’m writing a review of it for the site I write for, and having a blast!I've read that book It really is a trip Spock as a space pirate.![]()
“Black Fire,” by Sonni Cooper. It’s a trip!
That is super helpful, thank you!Depending how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go, there’s a fanzine out there (Infinite Diversity #5) that has all the deleted/rewritten portions of Black Fire.
I had a lot of fun reading Black Fire and the cut scenes together a while back. Some of the weirdness of the final book is due to editorial changes. In other words, the original version made a smidgen more sense!
I reviewed that book last month. I nearly killed myself laughing:https://treksphere.com/book-reviews...ZaXas0Yj2nmmSv0Alzd81eZNGrKG2WcEIjEscfhrM7mt8How Much for Just the Planet? I think this is my first time reading this one. I have absolutely NO recollection of this at all.
I'm enjoying it. It's less a laugh-riot than I was led to understand, but it's definitely amusing.
I reviewed that book last month. I nearly killed myself laughing:https://treksphere.com/book-reviews...ZaXas0Yj2nmmSv0Alzd81eZNGrKG2WcEIjEscfhrM7mt8
Jeremiah.
Wasn't he a bullfrog? Or so I've heard.
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