Derek Fox

More precisely than any other imaginative or nonfiction work I encountered as a child, A Wrinkle in Time evokes for me the magic of science—the "something wonderful" that waits for us out in the Universe, ready to be discovered if we will only look. As a young would-be scientist, I suspected this truth without being able to articulate it; as a mature scientist I can confirm that, in this respect, L'Engle's make-believe story is true as true can be.