A tale of Time City
/ Diana Wynne Jones ; introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
- New York : Firebird , 2012, c1987
- 334 p ; 21 cm
In this travel fantasy, in London, in 1939, Vivian Smith is kidnapped, not being evacuated, due to war. Her kidnappers are Jonathan and Sam, two boys her own age, from a place called Time City. Built eons ago on a patch of space outside time, Time City was designed to oversee history. But now history is going critical, and Jonathan and Sam are convinced that Time City's impending doom can only be averted by a Twenty Century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl....