He adopted a large variety of SF tropes to these themes, and with well-realized characters, made a career’s worth of consistently readable novels. I decided to check out The House of Stairs (1974) … and have been reading every Sleator book I could find since then.Īs seen in the descriptions below, Sleator’s works tend to feature life growing up in imperfect families, but also a deep distrust in non-family institutions (corporations, schools and medicine in particular). I’ve retained vivid memories of that book ever since, making Sleator one of the most important writers of my reading history.Ī couple of years ago, I came across some more Sleator titles while helping my own kids find books in the juvenile section of the library. I read The Green Futures of Tycho (1981) in my grade school library (back in late 1980’s), and it was my first legitimate science fiction reading experience. Sleator was a science fiction author who wrote for the juvenile and young adult markets. This post is a partial “primer” of the works of William Sleator (1945-2011) wherein I provide at least a sentence or two about every title of his that I’ve been able to find and read. Once you read 20 books by the same author, you are almost inarguably a fan (but probably not an expert) of that author.
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