Saturday, February 16, 2019

This Week's Oz Short Story

Well, not so much of a short story as it is a roundup of all the other little extras from the 1997 issue of Oziana. So let's take a look:

  • The cover is a simple computer-printed Oz shield design that is meant to be colored. I haven't colored mine...
  • "The ABCs of Oz" is a combination quiz/word find, created by editor Robin Olderman.
  • "Percy's Predicament: Problematic, Puzzling Poesy" sees Percy Vere the forgetful poet giving a few more of his quatrains, with missing words at the end that the reader needs to fill in.
  • "Professor Woggle's Bugs: A.K.A. Computer VIROZES" (no, really, that's how the title is spelled, capitalized, and punctuated) presents some silly computer viruses and the effects they have on your computer, all tied in with something Ozzy. Remember, this was still early days of computing (the Internet was just coming into homes, and was still very much a novelty), so it probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, it just seems a little silly.

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