First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Farah Mendlesohn is a noted science fiction critic and historian. She is Editor of the journal Foundation: theInternational Review of Science Fiction and has twice served as a judge for the esteemed Arthur C. Clarke award for best work in sf. She co-edited, with Professor Edward James, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.

Series Editor's Foreward Acknowledgments Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones Chapter One. Wilkins' Tooth Chapter Two: Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence Chapter Three: Time Games. Chapter Four: Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-quest Fantasy Chapter Five: The Immersive Fantasy Chapter Six: Making the Mundane Fantastic: Liminality, Estrangement, Irony and Equipoise Chapter Seven: A Mad Kind of Reasonableness Epilogue Notes Bibliographies