A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
A Wrinkle in Time is a 1962 love book written by Madeleine L'Engle.
Meg Murry is prickly, stubborn, and sure she is the wrong shape for the world. Her father, a scientist who was working on something called a tesseract, has been missing a long time. Then three strange women arrive, and with her uncanny little brother Charles Wallace and a schoolmate named Calvin, Meg is folded across space toward the planet where he is held. Madeleine L'Engle writes a cosmos where love and physics make the same argument, and where a shadow called the Black Thing spreads between the stars, darkening world after world.
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What is A Wrinkle in Time about?
Meg Murry is prickly, stubborn, and sure she is the wrong shape for the world. Her father, a scientist who was working on something called a tesseract, has been missing a long time. Then three strange women arrive, and with her uncanny little brother Charles Wallace and a schoolmate named Calvin, Meg is folded across space toward the planet where he is held. Madeleine L'Engle writes a cosmos where love and physics make the same argument, and where a shadow called the Black Thing spreads between the stars, darkening world after world.
When was A Wrinkle in Time published?
A Wrinkle in Time was published in 1962.
Who made A Wrinkle in Time?
A Wrinkle in Time was written by Madeleine L'Engle.
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Readers taken with its galaxy-spanning wonder should try Galaxy Express 999, another youthful journey across the stars shadowed by cosmic dread. Interstellar builds a whole film on the tesseract and on love reaching across dimensions, exactly Madeleine L'Engle's wager. The 2018 film puts Meg's world on screen for younger viewers.
Science bending space itself to reach someone you love
Meg tessers across dimensions using her father's half-finished physics to reach a planet folded impossibly far from Earth. These stories treat science the same way: as a tool desperate enough to bend space itself, whether through a wormhole, a portal gun, a dimensional tear, or a love that survives being scattered across years and worlds.
Worlds where everyone thinks the same thought at the same time
On Camazotz, every mind beats in the same rhythm, and Meg's father is trapped inside a system built to erase whoever resists it. These books share that chill: a society, a parasite, or a feed that flattens people into the same shape, and a girl who refuses to think, want, or love on command.
Kids who cross vast, strange worlds looking for where they belong
Meg tessers across the universe to find her father and discovers her strange little brother Charles Wallace understands the trip better than she does. These stories send a kid through worlds built on rules nothing like Earth's, chasing a parent, an origin, or a place that finally makes sense of them.