So over at Tor.com I’m asking the big questions about which YA vamp books are going to get snapped up, after Twilight’s ridiculous success and the quiet acquisition of the “House of Night” series’ movie rights.

You know which one I really wish they would make? A Wrinkle in Time: This One Does Not Suck.

Because you guys, seriously, the version they put on TV was dreadful. I made it about halfway through. Maybe a third of the way. The casting of the kids was fine, even if it looked like a prelude to a threesies all the time:

But most of the rest of it was either embarrassing:

Or Wookies:

(Seriously, who were they fooling with that?)

That book was a huge influence on me when I was a kid: I absolutely loved that Meg was not the prettiest princess in school, and not even the smartest kid in her house; her best trait was that when shit went down, she went in after it.

Not to mention that this book had a trio of powerful women who aided the heroine, which was sort of ridiculously rare in my childhood reading. Plus, philosophy! Plus, science! (The only two minutes of my life I was interested in science! I can still do the ant-on-a-string tesseract! Or I could if ants didn’t give me the wigs. But whatever!)