Reading Ozma of Oz | Alexandria
Read Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Following Dorothy's chicken-toting metal friend as he navigates a magical land turns the hero's journey on its head. Ozma of Oz brilliantly subverts fantasy tropes by making its mechanical man more human than its flesh-and-blood characters - challenging our assumptions about consciousness while delivering a steampunk adventure decades before the genre existed.