The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Want to know the secret story Lewis Carrol didn’t dare to tell?
I’m reading Frank Beddor’s novel, The Looking Glass Wars. Beddor seeks to do for Alices Adventures in Wonderland what Gregory McGuire did for Wicked.
Although I recently mentioned that the upcoming SciFi Network’s Tin Man seems an attempt to mine the same story as McGuire and use the same device of changing the point of view to revisit and re-envision the Wizard of Oz, Beddor takes a similar tact but with new material, just as McGuire does with his non-Oz retelling of famous fairy tales.
I’m not done. So I hope I continue to be enthralled. Thankfully, there’s a second novel in the series in case I do find myself enchanted.
Meanwhile, Beddor, a film producer, has a breath-taking website with animated clips and gorgeous storyboards. I think this is an exciting new era — the multi-media author, such as Beddor — can envision a world or create a trend in one medium and port it to other media and use the internet and imagery and sound.
Is there an old story you’d like to see re-envisioned for the new millennium?
Image via Looking Glass Wars.
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I'm a writer and composer. On this blog I focus on cultural topics. I'm sort of fascinated by billboards and advertising and cool television shows and speculative fiction. Sometimes I blog about politics and civil rights cases.
