Talk:Was (novel)

GA aims

I'm going to be working this up to GA, so i'll put sources here for now. Any comments are welcome.YobMod 11:29, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

• Fairy tale as myth/myth as fairy tale By Jack David Zipes. p. 134-8. [1]

Comparison to Farmer's Barnstormer in Oz, in depth discussion of fantasy/escapism themes.

• Edging into the future: science fiction and contemporary cultural transformation By Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon. p. 25-27.[2]

Discusses themes of identity and others.

• The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction By Mark Bould, p.198.[3]

Use of multiple narratives to address problem of hitorical reality.

• The best novels of the nineties: a reader's guide By Linda Parent Lesher [4]

Has entry.

• Difference: reading with Barbara Johnson, By Naomi Schor, Elizabeth Weed, Ellen Rooney p.32 [5]

Themes of trauma and optimisim

• Uranian worlds, p. 736

LGBT inclusion.

• The Wizard of Oz catalog: L. Frank Baum's novel, its sequels and their ... By Fraser A. Sherman, p.100. [6]

Calls it a "dark version"

• "There's no place like home": Geoff Ryman's Was and Turner's Myth of National Childhood by Steffen Hantke [7]

Academic discussion: themes of childhood and Western expansion.

• Lost Girl: Diminishing Dorothy of Oz http://www.pcasacas.org/SiPC/SiPC_31.1/SIPC_31.1.pdf#page=63

Compares other Oz retelling, with common thread of Dorothy being a victim.

• The Pressures of History and Fiction in Geoff Ryman's Was, H Canaan - JOURNAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS, 2003

Kid's book

I removed the WikiProject Children's literature box from this page as my understanding is that this work is not remotely intended for people under the age of 13. it seems all the Oz books are tagged as Kid's books. Can we find a way to prove what age level Was is aimed at. Tydoni (talk) 16:23, 3 March 2010 (UTC)