- Science fiction, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction
Ann discovers that the wood near her village is under the control of a Bannus, a machine that manipulates reality, placed there many years ago by powerful extraterrestrial beings called Reigners.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Diana Wynne Jones
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Collins, Puffin Books, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780416188462
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“THE LETTER WAS IN Earth script, unhandily scrawled in blobby blue ballpoint.”
A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
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