His 2009 short story "Lep" appears in the anthology How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity and is from a young gay Thai man's perspective.
For example, Sleator's The Green Futures of Tycho takes place in the past in addition to the future the world outside his House of Stairs is hinted to be dystopic Interstellar Pig draws upon the supposed insanity of a long-dead prisoner.Įlements of Thai culture also occasionally turn up in his stories. Unlike the 'Golden Age' science fiction future-oriented model (one of Buck Rogers tomorrowlands), Sleator's work often includes a morbid or negative fixation on the past or includes visions of dystopian or alternate worlds (future or otherwise) in which something has gone wrong. His characters are reluctant teenage heroes, and Sleator's younger siblings and friends have often found themselves being written into his prose, as in the semi-autobiographical story collection Oddballs. Sleator's writing style has been described as clean and simple. His first published book was a children's story called The Angry Moon, released in 1970. Eventually, Sleator returned to the United States to write his first novel, Blackbriar, eventually published in 1972, which was based on real life experiences. CareerĪfter college, Sleator moved to England, earning money by playing music in ballet schools. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English in 1967. Others cite a strong resemblance to the paranoid, dream-like style of Franz Kafka, which is most notable in House of Stairs, one of Sleator's more popular novels.
Stine (who has identified himself as a fan of Sleator's work). The theme of family relationships, especially between siblings, is frequently intertwined with the science fiction plotline.ĭue to the suspenseful and often eerie nature of some of his works, Sleator has been compared to young-adult horror writer R. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then trying to deal with the situation. William Warner Sleator III (Febru– August 3, 2011), known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
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