The Wrinkle in Time Quintet

 
　　The Time Quintet by Madeleine L'Engle consists of A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. The digest box set features the art of Taeeun Yoo.
 
1. 時間的皺摺 A Wrinkle in Time
 
　　梅格愛打抱不平，卻常常因此弄得滿身傷。她的五歲弟弟查爾斯天賦異稟，卻總是被其他的孩子嘲笑。梅格的同學凱爾文善體人意，在學校是風雲人物，卻有不為人知的家庭窘境。在一個狂風暴雨、雷電交加的夜晚，梅格家來了一個神祕的訪客……沒想到這就是他們展開跨時空旅程的序曲。
 
　　A Wrinkle in Time is one of the most significant novels of our time. This fabulous, ground-breaking science-fiction and fantasy story is the first of five in the Time Quintet series about the Murry family. A Wrinkle in Time is soon to be a major motion picture from Disney, directed by Ava DuVernay, starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling.
 
2. 銀河的裂縫A Wind in the Door
 
　　查爾斯在菜園裡看到一大群龍，不久後他就病倒了。梅格後來才發現，弟弟口中的「龍」其實不是龍，而是身上有好多翅膀和眼睛，會飛會噴火的天使！這一次，梅格要跟天使和好麻吉凱爾文一同合作，拯救弟弟查爾斯脫離險境。他們必須把握時間，對抗在宇宙間散播仇恨的以棄烙，找回宇宙萬物的運行節奏，阻止以棄烙的勢力繼續壯大！
 
　　A Wind in the Door―When Charles Wallace falls ill, Meg, Calvin, and their teacher, Mr. Jenkins, must travel inside C.W. to make him well, and save the universe from the evil Echthros.
 
3. 傾斜的星球A Swiftly Tilting Planet
 
　　查爾斯長大了。十五歲的他，必須在二十四小時之內完成一個天外飛來的任務，不然南美洲獨裁者「瘋狗布蘭茲洛」就會發動核武戰爭，毀滅全世界。這一次，查爾斯要和獨角獸搭檔，穿梭時間，回到過去，進出不同人物的腦海深處，扭轉歷史中的某一件「可能發生卻沒發生的事」。
 
　　A Swiftly Tilting Planet―The Murry and O'Keefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war.
 
4. 末日的逆襲Many Waters
 
　　雙胞胎山迪和丹尼斯誤碰了父親正在進行的實驗，陰錯陽差掉進別的時空，發現熟悉的家變成一片沙漠，兩人來到了獨角獸忽隱忽現、猛瑪象和蠍尾獅四處跑的奇特世界。他們除了想辦法回家，還要幫助一對疏遠已久的父子重新和好。這件事可不簡單，特別是當事人名叫諾亞，他準備在長年缺水的沙漠中建造一艘大船。
 
　　Many Waters―Meg Murry, now in college, time travels with her twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys, to a desert oasis that is embroiled in war.
 
5. 超時空之謎An Acceptable Time
 
　　波麗散步到媽媽梅格以前最愛的觀星岩，卻一腳踏進了互相重疊的時間迴圈，波麗的朋友查克力卻在這時候出現，讓情況脫離掌控──他們又墜入三千年前，但這次時間之門關上，他們回不來了。在這裡等待他們的，是險惡的部落戰爭，還有相信活人獻祭的野人。然而在古代智者德魯伊的幫助下，波麗漸漸發覺自己被送來這裡的使命。
 
　　An Acceptable Time―While spending time with her grandparents, Alex and Kate Murry, Polly O'Keefe wanders into a time 3,000 years before her own.

作者簡介

麥德琳．蘭歌 Madeleine L’Engle

　　一生著作超過六十部，最受歡迎的即為「時光五部曲」。她父親是記者，母親一心想成為鋼琴家，家中總是充滿了音樂人和劇場人。蘭歌的成長歲月分別在紐約、瑞士、南卡羅來納和麻州度過。以優等成績從史密斯學院畢業之後，蘭歌回到紐約的劇場工作，她在巡迴演出空檔寫下處女作《細雨》(The Small Rain) 並於一九四五年出版。演出《櫻桃園》期間她結識了未來的丈夫（同為劇中演員）。

　　婚後蘭歌放棄了劇場生涯，投入寫作，在三個孩子成長期間完成四本小說。丈夫從劇場退休之後，他們舉家遷往康乃迪克州西部並在當地開了一家雜貨店。她的《奧斯丁一家人》(Meet the Austins) 即根據這段經驗寫成，並獲選美國圖書協會一九六○年最佳圖書。

　　她的科幻奇幻經典《時間的皺摺》榮獲一九六三年的紐伯瑞金牌獎。一九八○年她推出《永恆之光》(A Ring of Endless Light)，再度獲得紐伯瑞銀牌獎肯定。

　　她曾獲得愛德華終身成就獎、世界奇幻文學協會終身成就獎、ALAN青少年文學傑出貢獻獎、國家人文獎章……等殊榮。辭世後名聲依然不墜，在二○一一年被選入「紐約作家名人堂」。

　　Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) was born in New York City and attended Smith College. She wrote more than 60 books, the most famous of which is A Wrinkle In Time (1962), winner of the Newbery Award in 1963. L'Engle continued the story of the Murry family from A Wrinkle In Time with seven other novels (five of which are available as A Wrinkle In Time Quintent from Square Fish). She also wrote the famous series featuring the Austin family, beginning with the novel Meet The Austins (1960). L'Engle revisited the Austins four more times over the next three decades, concluding with Troubling a Star in 1994. The story of the Austins had some autobiographical elements, mirroring Madeleine's life and the life of her family. Madeleine L'Engle's last book, The Joys of Love, is a romantic, coming-of-age story she wrote back in the 1940s, that was recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.