Hexwood ebook

by Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones Science Fiction and Fantasy English

Illustrated by tim stevens. The letter was in Earth script, unhandily scrawled in blobby blue ballpoint. It said: Hexwood Farm.

Illustrated by tim stevens. Wednesday 3 March 1993. Dear Sector Controller, We though we better send to you in Regional straight off. We got a right problem here. This fool clerk, calls hisself Harrison Scudmore, he went and started one of these old machines running, the one with all the Reigner seals on it, says he overrode the computers to do it.

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer of fantasy novels for children and adults. She wrote a small amount of non-fiction

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer of fantasy novels for children and adults. She wrote a small amount of non-fiction. This list follows the Internet Speculative Fiction Database in grouping many works in five fiction series. Some other classifications differ from ISFDB. There is some overlap in listings. Changeover (1970) - reissued 2004, London: Moondust Books, with a new introduction by Jones, "The Origins of Changeover".

Diana Wynne Jones has written quite an amount of books, and I can't comprehend why Hexwood does not rank among the most read. It is such a wonderfully complex and interwoven story that stretches across a wide board of genres. I love stories where the narrative seems to jump back and forth between different timelines.

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I'd be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a Grail quest. lt;h4 align center Strange things happen at Hexwood Farm. From her window, Ann Stavely watches person after person disappear through the farm's gate - and never come out again.

Yam’s looking after Hume now, she told herself. He was obviously the nonreal person she had asked the field to provide for Hume when Mordion could not seem to be bothered. He was obviously the nonreal person she had asked the field to provide for Hume when Mordion could not seem to be bothered ot of fancy hocus-pocus to make Ann believe it was the year two thousand and something, and then more fancy work with the men in armor. It seemed to enjoy making people frightened and uncomfortable. I have had enough of that machine!. Ann told her bedroom mirror

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Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series; the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm; and The Tough Guide To Fantasyland.

Consequently, whenever Ann enters Hexwood, she cannot guarantee on always ending up in the same place or even the same time

Consequently, whenever Ann enters Hexwood, she cannot guarantee on always ending up in the same place or even the same time. Hexwood Farm is full of machines that should not be tampered with – and when one is, the aftershock is felt throughout the universe

Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones.

Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones. Contents PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR PART FIVE PART SIX PART SEVEN PART EIGHT PART NINE AUTHORтАЩS NOTE. First published in the United States in 1994 by Greenwillow Books. The author asserts the moral right to be identifed as the author of this work.

Hexwood is like human memory. It does not need to take events in their correct order. Hexwood Farm is full of machines that should not be tampered with and when one is, the after-shock is felt throughout the universe. Only Hume, Ann and Mordion can prevent an apocalypse.

Wymefw

Diana Wynne Jones wrote countless fantasy works of the highest order, including for kids, YAs, and crossover Adults-YAs. Of them all, perhaps her three great YA-Adult crossover masterpieces are Hexwood and Deep Secret and Fire and Hemlock. Deep Secret is her amazing comic masterpiece and Hexwood probably comes closest to science fiction--her fantasy/sci-fi YA-Adult masterpiece. She wrote almost no fantasy-science fiction blends but these do include Hexwood and the great Tale of Time City. They are all flawless extraordinary works. What is inexplicable is this: That with all her books I've mentioned and nearly all her other over 20-something books, Hexwood one of the very, very, few not on Kindle. Why, why why? Please Amazon, help us, and get Diana Wynne Jones' astounding Hexwood on Kindle ! And by the way, when my son and I read it together when he was an mid-older teenager, he loved it too, and we both still do, and he agrees it's (with Deep Secret) her very greatest YA-adult masterpiece of all. Kindle, Kindle, Kindle -- please !

Munigrinn

Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite writers, but she frustrates me a lot. Her plots are often back-loaded, and she assumes readers to understand what she’s doing without going into a lot of detail. But her stories are so well constructed, her storytelling so witty, her characters so flawed and awkward and relatable, that we put up with the plots that slam us in the face. And honestly, her plots are pretty amazingly put together, when you look at them later. Hexwood is a prime example of what Jones does best. Yeah, the science-fictiony parts threw me for a loop, but I still enjoyed it, and I think fantasy and sci-fi fans alike would be into it, too.

No one knows what goes on at Hexwood Farm. Trucks park outside it and never unload anything; people in strange costumes walk in and never come out. Ann Stavely doesn’t know everything about Hexwood, but she does know about three beings who live on its land: a wizard who seems to have been dead for centuries, a small boy with no parents, and the robot that looks after them. Ever since Ann stumbled upon them one day, she’s been back to visit many times. But it seems to her that time doesn’t move the same way at Hexwood …

Watching all of this are five Reigners, rulers of a realm of which Earth is only a part. If the dwellers of Hexwood keep up their shenanigans, the Reigners might lose some of their power. Will two kids, a robot, and an out-of-practice wizard have a chance against the Reigners?

Hexwood is one of the oddest books I’ve ever read, and I’m used to Jones’s brand of oddity. The book somehow manages to weave together small-town life, science fiction, Arthurian legend, and a staggering amount of mistaken identity. It comes off as ingenious rather than simply unbelievable. My only issue was that Jones doesn’t try too hard to acclimate us to the Reigners and their stronghold. It took me ages to figure out that part of the storyline. But then again, I’ve never been that interested in science fiction, and that was the most science-fictiony part of the book.

Hexwood more than redeems itself in the end, though. I’m looking forward to rereading it just so I can smirk at the characters, since I know how the plot unfolds and they don’t. One of the best Jones reads I’ve had in a while. I’m guessing you’ll think so, too.

Hamrl

I'm not completely convinced that Jones was in control of what she was trying to do here, but this is the kind of novel that you'd have to reread before really having read it, if that makes sense. It's a story about story-telling at it's root, I think. Not a story about stories (or meta-story) as I thought at first, but a story about story-telling.

It's science fiction, but it's science fiction married with fantasy. There's a galactic civilization and advanced technology, but most of the action takes place on Earth in an Arthurian setting with magic and dragons. The driver of the story is a machine called the Bannus (great name, is it derived from something?) that's described as a machine to aid in decision-making. The way it works is to take a basic scenario and run through all the alternative versions of it to help people choose which one they prefer. Thus a story-telling machine. What decision it is trying to help the characters in the novel make is complicated and involves spoilers. Likewise to discuss the characters themselves is difficult, because most of them aren't who they seem to be at first and appear in multiple guises as the Bannus works through various versions of the scenario.

The first part of the novel leaps between different versions of the scenario and is extremely disorienting. As the novel progresses, more and more characters are added to the mix (or so it seems), and everything just gets more and more complicated. Ultimately the plot is a very familiar one, but the multitude of versions on offer (sometimes only in brief glimpses) is what makes the book extremely difficult and dense.

One reason I'm not completely convinced that Jones was in control of all this is that the ending felt like a lot of people explaining to each other what just happened. Then again, if it's a story about story-telling, maybe it's appropriate that the resolution consists of a lot of people telling more stories. Yet the other thing that felt slightly off about the ending is an apparent attempt to make it all about the titular forest, which to me felt disconnected from everything else -- and a bit of deus ex machina (or ex sylvanus, or whatever the Latin for forest is) -- but could well make more sense on a reread.

It's a very strange book, and I liked that about it. Once again the characters are very engaging, although perhaps slightly less so amongst some of the minor characters (even Hume, who isn't really minor) than in the other two Jones books I've read. As in Fire and Hemlock there's the presentiment of a romantic relationship between a younger girl and an older man (but not much older) that isn't what it looks like at first but still inhabits uncomfortable territory in what feels like a weirdly realistic way. Once again Jones unleashes her imagination into unexpected and risky corners and byways. I really admire that about her. Her stories feel alive, conflicted, writhing and wriggling in your hands and in your mind. You're never quite sure which way they're going to squirm.

Alien

brilliant and intricate plot. very interesting

Vaua

Excellent reading, complicated plot, unexpected ending, great as all Diana Wynne Jones' books.

Impala Frozen

An enjoyable offering from Diana Wynne Jones, although lacking the humour that makes me prefer some of her other books. But I am writing this review to warn potential purchasers that this particular Kindle edition is a disgrace: the copy-editing is appalling, with random punctuation and plurals and possessives confused more often than not. There are also obvious OCR mistakes. I found the continual errors irritating and distracting.