History Literature / LandOfOz

** The Guardian of the Gates of the Emerald City
** The Iron Giant in ''Ozma of Oz''

* WorldBuilding: Maps by Baum depict Oz's four regions and its neighboring kingdoms. The worldbuilding came about because of fans clamoring for [[BackStory more stories and places]] to explore. (ContinuitySnarl ensued.)

* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: Bunnyburg; Glinda apparently loves rabbits.
** In the last of the Famous Forty. ''Merry-Go-Round in Oz,'' it's revealed that the EasterBunny lives in Oz as well.

* HurricaneOfPuns: Baum liked puns. Ruth Plumly Thompson liked them even ''better.''

* CardCarryingVillain: The Nome King again.

* {{Steampunk}}: Oz, both the written ''and'' the 1939 film, has strong elements of this. Tik-Tok is a prime example.

* CuteShotaroBoy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button-Bright Button-Bright]] in the Baum books.

* TouchedByVorlons: The inhabitants of the Valley of Voe who eat the dama-fruit

** The Indie Game ''EmeraldCityConfidential'' is this.

** Then there's the prominent Oz sequence in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's novel ''TheNumberOfTheBeast''.

* ''Paradox in Oz'' by Edward Einhorn (1999)

* ''The Emerald Wand of Oz'' by Sherwood Smith (2005)
* ''The Living House of Oz'' by Edward Einhorn (2005)
* ''Trouble Under Oz'' by Sherwood Smith (2006)
* ''Silver Tower of Oz'' by Margaret Baum (2011)

A number of unauthorized sequels, alternate takes on Oz, and out of continuity tales. The following list may be incomplete:
* ''The Laughing Dragon of Oz'' by Frank Joslyn Baum (1934)

* ''A Barnstormer in Oz'' by Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer (1982)
* ''ReturnToOz'' by Joan D. Vinge (1985). Novelization of the film.
* ''Dorothy of Oz'' by Roger Stanton Baum (1989)
* ''The Rewolf of Oz'' by Roger Stanton Baum (1990)

* ''Was'' by Geoff Ryman (1992)

* ''Son of a Witch'' by Gregory Maguire (2005)

* ''A Lion Among Men'' by Gregory Maguire (2008)
* ''Oz Squad: March of the Tin Soldiers'' by Steve Ahlquist (2011). Novel based on the Oz Squad comic book series.
* ''Out of Oz'' by Gregory Maguire (2011)

* {{Cyborg}} and UnwillingRoboticisation: Possibly the earliest example of a full-body-replacement cyborg in modern literature is the Tin Woodsman from ''Literature/{{The Wonderful Wizard of Oz}}''. He was once a perfectly ordinary human being until a witch cursed his axe, which repeatedly attacked him to chop off his body parts. He gradually replaces his missing body piece by piece with tin prosthetics -- until essentially all that was left was a mind in a tin shell. [[hottip:*:The tinsmith kept his old head in a closet, where, due to the no-death nature of Oz, it remained sentient, desiring nothing to do with the Tin Man when he returned to retrieve it.]]

* DomedHometown: The island of the Skeezers in ''Glinda of Oz'' is covered by a glass dome, and can be submerged in or raised above the surface of the lake with a spell known only to the queen.

** In the last of the Famous Forty. ''Merry-Go-Round in Oz,'' it's revealed that the EasterBunny lives in Oz as well.

** Then there's the prominent Oz sequence in RobertAHeinlein's novel ''TheNumberOfTheBeast''.

* PublicDomainCharacter: The first 16 books are public domain and that's still enough material for {{fanfic}}s and different takes on Oz. Even now there are new comics based on ''Land of Oz'' and sometimes they {{cross over}} with other {{public domain character}}s, like Alice from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.

* UnderwaterCity: The Skeezers' island in ''Glinda of Oz'', when submerged.

* ''A Barnstormer in Oz'' by Philip José Farmer (1982)

The first 16 books are now public domain. There are also many unauthorized sequels, including the award-winning book ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' (and the equally-award-winning [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} Broadway musical that was based on it]]), Alexander M. Volkov's ''TalesOfTheMagicLand'' and PhilipJoseFarmer's ''A Barnstormer in Oz''.

** ''A Barnstormer in Oz'' by PhilipJoseFarmer is one such example. This story is the adventures of the son of Dorothy. The novel is done from a more adult point of view.

* RoadMovie: Many Oz books are the literary equivalent, with the characters taking a journey that results in adventures (rarely more than two chapters each) that have nothing to do with the main plot or each other. Occasionally, there might be an interlude that advances the main plot along the journey. The main plot will generally wrap up very quickly once the characters reach their destination.

* {{Immortality}}: After the first few books, everyone in Oz has this, though it [[ContinuityDrift drifts]] between Type II and Type VI without the aging.

The Land of Oz is a fantasy setting created by LFrankBaum in his novel ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

* ''The Wizard of the Emerald City'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1939, 1959)
* ''Urfin Joos and his Wooden Soldiers'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1963)
* ''The Seven Underground Kings'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1964)
* ''The Fiery God of the Marrans'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1968)
* ''The Yellow Fog'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1970)
* ''The Secret of the Deserted Castle'' by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (written 1975, published 1982)