Contemporary references to Rudy Giuliani, the Internet, and television newscasts are unusual, at the least, in an Oz book.
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As with other attempts at contemporizing Oz fiction (see, for example, Martin Gardner's Visitors from Oz), the success of the approach will vary with the taste of the individual reader.