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A Barnstormer in Oz : ウィキペディア英語版
A Barnstormer in Oz

''A Barnstormer in Oz: A Rationalization and Extrapolation of the Split-Level Continuum'' is a 1982 novel by Philip José Farmer and is based on the setting and characters of L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''.
The central character of the novel is Hank Stover, a pilot and the son of Dorothy Gale, who finds himself in Oz when his plane gets lost in a green cloud over Kansas in 1923. The Oz he discovers is on the brink of civil war; he encounters Erakna, the new Wicked Witch.
Farmer takes an unusual approach to the corpus of Oz literature; he depends almost solely on Baum's original Oz book and neglects its many sequels. This "originalist" approach to the Oz mythos is rare but not unique; a few other writers have taken similar tacks, including Roger S. Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum. In ''Barnstormer'', Dorothy has made only one visit to Oz; when Hank Stover arrives, the Scarecrow still rules the Emerald City, just as at the end of Baum's first Oz book.
Since Farmer wrote for adults rather than children, there are elements of sex and violence in ''Barnstormer'' that are not typical of the Oz literature. As the book's subtitle indicates, Farmer indulges a rationalizing and explanatory bent: he treats Oz as a parallel universe in the science fiction vein. He attempts explanations and analyses of some of the fantastic elements in Baum's fictional world, including magic and talking animals. The book is also subtlly anti-socialist, the character constantly points out the flaws of the near communist Oz. Others have projected a gun-control view on the book. Gunpowder and firearms are outlawed by the ruling magicians as they believe it would cause an upset of power and allow their subjects to level the playing field.
Opinions of Farmer's contribution to the literature of Oz span the entire critical spectrum; Jack Zipes called the novel "splendid,"〔Jack David Zipes, ''Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale'', Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1994; p. 128.〕 while Katharine Rogers considered it "revision to the point of debasement."〔Katharine M. Rogers, ''L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography'', New York, Macmillan, 2002; p. 252.〕
Farmer wrote several other books that take fresh views of famous figures of popular and pulp literature: ''A Barnstormer in Oz'' can be grouped with his ''Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke'' (1972), ''Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life'' (1973), and ''The Other Log of Phileas Fogg'' (also 1973), among other works.
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