William Sleator

William Warner Sleator III ( born February 13, 1945 in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland; † 3 August, 2011 Buachet, Thailand) was an American science fiction author who especially wrote books for young people and adolescents.

Life

Sleator earned a degree in music and English at Harvard University.

His stories deal with the problems and concerns of this age group, the emotional and psychological aspects. Also, family relationships, especially between siblings, appear again and again in his works. In his famous work The House of Stairs five juvenile orphans are used without their knowledge and consent in an experiment to explore the limits of their willpower and adjustment until the situation almost out of control.

Works

  • The Angry Moon (1970 )
  • Black Briar (1972 )
  • Run (1973)
  • The House of Stairs ( The House of Stairs ) ( 1974)
  • Among the Dolls (1975 )
  • Take Charge: A Personal Guide to Behavior Modification (1976 )
  • Into the Dream ( 1979)
  • Once, Said Darlene (1979 )
  • The Green Futures of Tycho (1981 *)
  • That's Silly (1981 )
  • Fingers ( 1983)
  • Interstellar Pig ( 1984)
  • Singularity (1985 )
  • The Boy Who Reversed Himself ( 1986)
  • The Duplicate (1988 )
  • Strange Attractors (1989 )
  • The Spirit House ( The Vampire Demons ) ( 1991)
  • Oddballs ( 1993) ( collection)
  • Dangerous Wishes ( 1995)
  • The Night the Heads Came (1996 )
  • The Beasties (1997)
  • The Boxes ( 1998)
  • Rewind ( 1999)
  • Boltzmon! (1999)
  • Marco 's Millions (2001)
  • Parasite Pig ( 2002)
  • The Boy Who Could not Die ( 2004)
  • The Last Universe ( 2005)
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