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Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is an American writer and artist known for her cross-genre experimental works. These include her hyperfiction Patchwork Girl (1995) and her first novel, Half Life (2006).
The narrative is based on two books: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The first draft was produced for a Brown University course taught by George Landow. [2] Jackson's work includes quotations from the novels of both Shelley and Baum, plus material from Jacques Derrida, Donna Haraway, and other writers. [8]
Half Life received mixed-to-positive reviews; Newsweek called it "brilliant and funny," [1] and The New York Times, while praising Jackson's ambition as "truly glorious," added that "All this razzle-dazzle, all the allusions, [and] the narrative loop-de-loops [get] a bit busy." [2] It won the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction ...
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Michael Jackson left more than an extensive musical legacy and his former estate of Neverland Ranch behind when he died at the age of the 50 on June 25, 2009 — the “Billie Jean” singer also ...
Scraps arguing with The Bear King in The Lost Princess of Oz. Scraps is a living rag doll made of patchwork, button eyes, brown yarn hair, a felt tongue, and pearl teeth.She was originally brought to life by a Munchkin magician named Dr. Pipt by means of his Powder of Life formula to be a servant for his wife Margolotte.
Laura Jane Haddock (born 21 August 1985) [1] is a British actress. She is known for portraying Zoë Walker in White Lines, Max Meladze in The Recruit, Lucrezia in Da Vinci's Demons, Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Viviane Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight.
Kellie Shanygne Williams-Jackson [1] (née Williams; born March 22, 1976) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Laura Lee Winslow , the middle-born child of Carl and Harriette Winslow on the ABC / CBS television series Family Matters which ran from 1989–1998.