A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle · 1962
A tesseract, a dark force called IT, and Meg Murry's refusal to surrender her father or her brother. L'Engle brings genuinely Christian cosmology to SF without losing its wonder or her girl protagonist's ferocity. The first major SF/F by an American woman to win the Newbery.
The case against
L'Engle's climax solves an interstellar evil in about four pages: Meg loves her brother hard enough and IT simply loses. The physics is decoration, the theology is delivered by quotation (Mrs Who cites scripture the way other books cite footnotes), and Camazotz, the most interesting place in the novel, gets abandoned the moment it scares you properly.
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