The Notherland Journeys books are what I call "girl-hero" stories, ones in which females get to do the kind of heroic stuff that male characters in fiction usually do. It turns out that 2012 is the 50th anniversary of a girl-hero story that's arguably the grandmama of them all: Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time.
A Wrinkle in Time was a major inspiration for the Notherland trilogy, especially for Book III, The Songweavers, which is also about a girl-hero travelling across many universes.
Pamela Paul, writing in the NYTimes, says that L'Engle was the first sci-fi writer with girl-appeal. To my mind, though,books like Wrinkle are more rightfully called speculative fiction. There's some "sci" in it, yes, but it's not futuristic and there's all kinds of wonderful speculation about what existence actually consists of.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/boo...
A Wrinkle in Time was a major inspiration for the Notherland trilogy, especially for Book III, The Songweavers, which is also about a girl-hero travelling across many universes.
Pamela Paul, writing in the NYTimes, says that L'Engle was the first sci-fi writer with girl-appeal. To my mind, though,books like Wrinkle are more rightfully called speculative fiction. There's some "sci" in it, yes, but it's not futuristic and there's all kinds of wonderful speculation about what existence actually consists of.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/boo...
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