Previous SFF Author: Stanislaw Lem
(1918-2007)
Madeleine L’Engle wrote more than sixty books for all ages. In 1998 she won the Margaret A. Edwards award for her lifetime contribution to writing for teens. She has also worked as an actress — she played Dr. Charles Tyler in the soap opera All My Children. Here is her website.
The Young Unicorns by Madeline L’Engle
Madeline L’Engle published The Young Unicorns in 1968. It features the Austin family, who were introduced in L’Engle’s 1960 novel Meet the Austins. In The Young Unicorns, the scientific, artistic Austin family has moved from a small rural Connecticut town into New York City. They live in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, a stone’s throw from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, which figures prominently in the story.
Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Madeleine L'Engle | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
First published in 1962, Madeleine L’Engle‘s classic book (along with its subsequent sequels) remains one of the greats of children’s literature, and it is a testimony to her skill that she can get away with using the line “it was a dark and stormy night” as her opening sentence. Widely considered the first science fiction novel written for children, A Wrinkle in Time is a must for any serious young reader’s bookshelf.
Margaret “Meg” Murry is a rather despondent child: her father is missing,
Rebecca Fisher, Ruth Arnell and Kat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Madeleine L'Engle | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
When I was a kid, Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time blew my mind. I’m sure that’s why I remember it as one of my favorite childhood books. Reading it gave me the first inkling of the immenseness of the universe and that the concepts of space and time were much more complicated than I had realized. I think it was also the book that started my life-long love of science fiction. Before that, I had no idea that I loved having my mind blown!
Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Madeleine L'Engle | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) is the third book in Madeleine L’Engle’s TIME quintet, a series of science fiction novels for children. The first book, the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time, blew my mind when I was a kid and I’m just now getting around to reading the sequels.
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Meg Murray is now an adult. She’s married to her childhood friend Calvin O’Keefe and is pregnant with their first child.
Kat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Madeleine L'Engle | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
Many Waters is the fourth book in Madeleine L’Engle’s TIME quintet. The previous three books, A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet have all focused on Meg Murray and her strange little brother Charles Wallace as they travel through time and space. Many Waters is completely different. In this story, Meg’s twin brothers Sandy and Dennis mess with a computer in their mother’s lab and get blasted back to the time of Noah before he built the ark.
Kat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Madeleine L'Engle | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The fifth and final book in Madeleine L’Engle’s TIME quintet is An Acceptable Time, a story about Polly, the daughter of Meg and Calvin, the kids we first met in that now-classic children’s science fiction novel A Wrinkle in Time. (Polly is also featured in a different L’Engle series about the O’Keefe family, and An Acceptable Time is the fourth and final book of that series. Slightly confusing, I know.)
One autumn while Polly is visiting her famous grandparents at their house in the country,
Kat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Madeleine L'Engle | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |
Previous SFF Author: Stanislaw Lem
Thanks for the kind words, Marion! Coming as they are from a professional writer, they are much appreciated!
Wonderful review, Sandy.
The "body count" bothered me a bit less because being dead seemed more like an inconvenience than anything else... unlike…
Detailed, thoughtful review, Bill. I'm going to read it for two reasons. First, Karen Russell wrote it, and second, it…
this sounds like a fun one