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William Sleator


Born
in Havre de Grace, Maryland, The United States
February 13, 1945

Died
August 04, 2011

Website

Genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Young Adult


William Warner Sleator III was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland on February 13, 1945, and moved to St. Louis, MO when he was three. He graduated from University City High School in 1963, from Harvard in 1967 with BAs in music and English.

For more than thirty years, William Sleator thrilled readers with his inventive books. His House of Stairs was named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by the Young Adult Library Services Association.

William Sleator died in early August 2011 at his home in Thailand.

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Average rating: 3.8 · 28,052 ratings · 2,913 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors
House of Stairs
3.85 avg rating — 4,682 ratings — published 1974 — 22 editions
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Interstellar Pig (Interstel...
3.89 avg rating — 2,831 ratings — published 1984 — 18 editions
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Singularity
4.04 avg rating — 1,710 ratings — published 1985 — 13 editions
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The Boy Who Couldn't Die
3.69 avg rating — 1,803 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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The Boy Who Reversed Himself
3.88 avg rating — 1,166 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions
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The Beasties
3.86 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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The Boxes (Marco's Millions...
3.79 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
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The Green Futures of Tycho
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 1981 — 13 editions
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Among the Dolls
3.68 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1975 — 9 editions
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The Last Universe
3.83 avg rating — 643 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Series by William Sleator

Interstellar Pig Parasite Pig
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“I learn more from books than from people”
― William Sleator, The Beasties
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“But really, that is kind of silly,' Abigail tried to explain. 'I mean, a book is much less personal than a programmed screen that can respond to you according to your needs, and concentrate on what's hard for you, and go fast on what's easy. A book stays the same no matter *who's* reading it. And anyway, I don't see how anyone could read a whole long book, it must be so boring!'

'But...but it wasn't,' Peter said faintly. 'I...almost forgot I was reading it. The...the whole story was going on in my head.'

'I still don't understand,' said Oliver. 'I mean, watching a real-life hologram right before your eyes is better than anything you could *imagine.*”
― William Sleator, House of Stairs
tags: dystopian-fiction
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“He reached out and took her hand. Neither cared that someone might see. They had been taught all their lives that the only deep feelings between men and women were sexual, but now they knew that it was a lie. They were friends and they loved one another, and their hand-holding was perfectly innocent. It was one more thing to rejoice in, one more way in which they had risen above the system, above the machine.”
― William Sleator, House of Stairs
tags: boy-girl-friendships, friendship, friendships, girl-boy-friendships, platonic-love
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