A Wrinkle in Time

Another society of enforced sameness — Lowry and L'Engle are asking the same question about conformity's cost, in different registers

Same synthesis of Christian theology and fantasy adventure — Lewis was the first, L'Engle more scientifically rigorous and less allegorically neat

The Time Quintet's second book — continues Meg and Charles Wallace's story, goes smaller (inside a cell) rather than larger (across the universe)

Published the same year (1961), same premise of a child moving through a strange universe that embodies abstract ideas — Juster uses wordplay where L'Engle uses physics

Also 1964, also a fierce, angry girl who doesn't fit social categories — the decade's other great portrait of female adolescent non-conformity

The most direct intellectual descendant: another girl on a cosmic mission, another synthesis of physics and metaphysics — Pullman inverts L'Engle's theology while inheriting her structure