RIP William Sleator

[intertribal]

He was one of the very few "YA" authors whose books I liked as a middle-schooler.  Also some of the first sci-fi and fantasy I read.  Interstellar Pig was assigned by an English teacher in 7th grade.  I read several others (Blackbriar, I sort of remember).  The one that made the most impact on me, though, was The Beasties, because of the whole pro-"monsters" angle.  I should re-read it, in fact.

Apparently he died in Thailand. 

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I only ever read House of Stairs (which I feel like we talked about? Or if it wasn't with you, it was with someone else who had complicated mixed feelings about it), but I was really impressed by it and remembered it way better than most other one-off books I read.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

You know, I never read that one? I tended to pick out his more horror-ish books (as compared to his sci-fi stuff) - and in hindsight I think that was part of why he's stayed with me, because his books were the first horror I read that wasn't Goosebumps.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Not sure why I have a question mark at the end of that first sentence. That's cool.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That's too bad (I'm always late on these things).

I read Interstellar Pig because someone else said it was good and because it was in one of the classrooms in middle school.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Did you like Interstellar Pig? That was like my gateway book for him, and I liked it mostly because it was so creepy.