Series
O'Keefe
Madeleine L'Engle · 4 novels · 1965–1989
Madeleine L'Engle's O'Keefe quartet follows Poly O'Keefe, daughter of A Wrinkle in Time's Meg Murry, beginning with The Arm of the Starfish (1965) and continuing through Dragons in the Waters, A House Like a Lotus, and An Acceptable Time. The books mix science fiction and mystery-thriller elements and are loosely connected to L'Engle's better-known Time Quintet.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
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O'Keefe at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s1
- 1980s2
Shape
4 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictioncoming of ageour worldcontemporarymysteriousyoung adult
Mood
Grim and intense: 50% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- An Acceptable Timedarkest
- The Arm of the Starfishbrightest · most intense
- A House Like a Lotuscalmest