Magic Land, or Goodwinia, is the alternative version of the Land of Oz created by Russian author Alexander Volkov in his six books, and developed further by Volkov's followers and imitators. Magic Land shows a broad range of similarities with (and divergences from) L. Frank Baum's original vision of Oz. Oddly enough, the orginal book Wizard of the Emerald City from 1939 was published 24 years before its sequel Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers in 1963. In both of the series, there can be found an Emerald City, a Powder of Life, and a little girl heroine from Kansas. The same core grouping of characters and elements exists in both, usually under different names: