10. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle In Time (1962)

《时间的皱纹》（1962年），麦德琳•兰歌著

Meg Murry’s father, a time traveling physicist, has disappeared. One night she, her precocious younger brother Charles Wallace and her mother – “a scientist and a beauty as well” – have an unexpected visitor. "Wild nights are my glory," the strange Mrs Whatsit tells them. "I just got blown off course.” She refers to a tesseract, a fifth dimension that allows travel through time and space. With her brother and a high school friend, Calvin, Meg sets out across the universe to find her father. Their confrontation with IT, the disembodied conformist intelligence that casts a shadow over the universe, is a noirish Cold War touch. L’Engle’s Newbery Award-winning book was an early foray into science fiction for younger readers, inspired in part by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Meg was a first in literature: a nerdy girl whose intelligence was matched by her powerful love for her family. (Credit: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

梅格•默里的父亲是一位能够穿越时光的物理学家，他不见了。一天晚上，她和她亲爱的弟弟查尔斯•华莱士，还有她的母亲，一位美女科学家，迎来了一位不速之客。这位奇怪的“什么”夫人跟他们说：“狂野的夜晚是我的荣耀。我刚刚被吹离了航线。”她指的是超立方体，能够让人穿越时空的五维空间。梅格带着弟弟和高中同学凯文穿越宇宙去寻找父亲。他们与IT的对峙其实是在用黑色手法表现冷战。IT是一个没有肉体、循规蹈矩的智能设备，它给整个宇宙罩上了一层阴影。兰歌的这部作品灵感来源于爱因斯坦的相对论，曾经摘得纽伯瑞儿童文学奖，同时也是针对青少年读者科幻作品的早期尝试。梅格是文学世界里第一个：智商与其对家人强烈的爱相匹配的怪咖女孩。（来源：法劳•斯特劳斯•吉罗出版公司）

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