Land of Oz

 

Land of Oz is a sandbox anthology with 13 fantasy stories, edited by Marie O'Regan & Paul Kane. Due out 1st Sept from Titan Books, it's 368 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links throughout. 

This is a nice collection of varied short stories set in Oz and with many characters featured in the canonical Oz books. 

The stories are varied, there were (as always) some which were less engaging, but all were well written and competently plotted. They were mostly in the 4 star range(ish). This is a well curated solid anthology of stories in the 3-5 star range. There are 13 stories in the anthology and all are previously unpublished fiction from very well known and some lesser known authors. 

One reason collections and anthologies are so fun is that short fiction is really challenging.  It's spare and the authors don't have a wealth of wordage to develop characters or the plotting.  Well written short fiction is a delight. Also, if one story doesn't really grab the reader, there's another story just a few pages away.  

Four stars on average. It's a diverting read.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.