William Sleator Books In Order

Interstellar Pig Books In Order

  1. Interstellar Pig (1984)
  2. Parasite Pig (2002)

Boxes Books In Order

  1. The Boxes (1998)
  2. Marco’s Millions (2001)

Novels

  1. The Angry Moon (1970)
  2. Blackbriar (1972)
  3. Run (1973)
  4. Among the Dolls (1975)
  5. The House of Stairs (1975)
  6. Once, Said Darlene (1979)
  7. Into the Dream (1979)
  8. The Green Futures of Tycho (1981)
  9. Fingers (1983)
  10. Singularity (1985)
  11. The Boy Who Reversed Himself (1986)
  12. The Duplicate (1988)
  13. Strange Attractors (1990)
  14. The Spirit House (1991)
  15. Others See Us (1993)
  16. Dangerous Wishes (1995)
  17. The Night the Heads Came (1996)
  18. The Beasties (1997)
  19. Rewind (1999)
  20. Boltzmon! (1999)
  21. The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (2004)
  22. The Last Universe (2005)
  23. Hell Phone (2006)
  24. Test (2008)
  25. The Phantom Limb (2011)

Collections

  1. Oddballs (1993)

Picture Books

  1. That’s Silly (1981)

Non fiction

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William Sleator Books Overview

Interstellar Pig

Barney’s new next door neighbours are unlike anyone he’s ever met utterly charming, slightly odd, and completely obsessed with a board game. When they invite Barney to join in a game of Interstellar Pig, he’s delighted…
until things start to get a little strange. The game involves rival aliens traversing the universe to gain possession of ‘The Piggy’, often destroying one another in their efforts. But it soon becomes clear that this is not just a game. The trio is searching for a real pig, and Barney can’t resist joining in the hunt. He outwits them, finds the pig and hides it in his cottage. And then he realises that the Pig isn’t the only thing that’s real. Zena, Manny and Joe are in fact aliens in disguise aliens who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Pig. And so, one dark night, Barney finds himself battling for his life against three vicious life forms, each equipped with incredible powers…

Parasite Pig

The daring game of intergalactic chase that thrilled a generation of science fiction readers in Interstellar Pig has started again, and round two is deadly! This sequel to William Sleator’s sly masterpiece takes readers on another hunt for the sinister Piggy, this time in the far reaches of space. Poor Barney has a boring after school job, earning money to repay his parents after their beach house is destroyed in a battle with aliens. Of course, they don’t believe that aliens did the damage. No one, in fact, realizes that sixteen year old Barney saved the world by outsmarting the visitors at their violent game, Interstellar Pig. No one but the aliens, and for them the game is far from over. Barney is about to be drawn into the contest again, becoming the unwilling partner of a chatty intestinal parasite; the potential snack of giant, man eating crabs; and the competitor of a stinger happy seven foot wasp woman. Life just got a lot more interesting. This sequel to a book that Kirkus Reviews called ‘a freewheeling science fiction nightmare comedy’ takes readers on another vivid, vilely funny journey into the mind of YA science fiction’s master.

The Boxes

Annie’s Uncle Marco goes on one of his mysterious trips, leaving her in charge of two sealed boxes on one condition: she must not open either one while he is away. But she is tempted…
and soon she has unleashed the unspeakable. The creatures inside the box are crab like and grotesque. And they possess a power Annie could never have imagined: the power to transmute time.

Marco’s Millions

Marco has always been obsessed with travelling. When his younger sister, Lilly, discovers an invisible tunnel in their baseme*nt, he can’t resist crawling into it. What he discovers there is truly fantastical a world inhabited by insect like creatures. They communicate via telepathy, and tell Marco that they need Lilly to help them contact The Unknowable their ‘God’ and thus prevent their world and Marco’s from destruction. Lilly is too scared to venture in to the hole, so Marco agrees to go in her stead. Once there, he must take a mysterious box on a long journey to the Unknowable a singularity that acts as a gateway between millions of different universes. When he discovers a second box, he is given the power to control gravity and time. And, at the gateway of the singularity, with its numerous adjoining universes, Marco knows that he really can go absolutely anywhere…

Blackbriar

Danny can feel something sinister about his new home, Blackbriar, an old, abandoned cottage in the English countryside. The residents of a nearby town refuse to speak of the house and can barely look Danny in the eyes. Then Danny begins to have strange dreams of fires and witches, and awakes to shrieks of laughter that seem to come from another time and place. With help from his friend, Lark, Danny begins to unravel the mysteries of Blackbriar and its frightening past,
through the discovery of an ancient doll and a chilling list of names and dates carved on the cellar door. But what might be most terrifying of all is the mystery that does not lie in the past but in the here and now…
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Among the Dolls

A dark awakening…
When her parents give her a gloomy old dollhouse for her birthday instead of the ten speed bike she’s expecting, Vicky is disappointed. But she soon becomes fascinated by the small shadowy world and its inhabitants. The hours she spends playing with the dolls is a good way to escape from her parents s arguments. As Vicky s life becomes more troubled, she starts to take out her frustration on the dolls, making their lives as unhappy as hers. Then one day, Vicky wakes up inside the dollhouse, trapped among the monsters she s created. Bewildered, Vicky is sure she s dreaming. Can she find her way out of this nightmare world?

The House of Stairs

One by one, five sixteen year old orphans are brought to a strange building. It is not a prison, not a hospital; it has no walls, no ceiling, no floor. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhere except back to a strange red machine. The five must learn to love the machine and let it rule their lives. But will they let it kill their souls? This chilling, suspenseful indictment of mind control is a classic of science fiction and will haunt readers long after the last page is turned. An intensely suspenseful page turner. School Library Journal A riveting suspense novel with an anti behaviorist message that works…
because it emerges only slowly from the chilling events. Kirkus Reviews

Once, Said Darlene

Darlene’s stories sound unbelievable but she insists they are all true.

Into the Dream

Paul has a recurring nightmare, about a small boy in awful danger. When he learns that his classmate Francine has it, too, the two of them join forces to solve the mystery and save the boy before their bad dream becomes a terrifying reality.

‘Tightly woven suspense and an ingenious, totally involving plotline make this a thriller of top notch quality.’ Booklist

The Green Futures of Tycho

When eleven year old Tycho discovers that the mysterious egg shaped object he dug up in his garden is a time travel device, he can t resist using his newfound power. Soon he is jumping back and forth in time, mostly to play tricks on his bossy older brothers and sister. But every time he uses the device, he notices that things are different when he gets back and the futures he visits are getting darker and scarier. Then Tycho comes face to face with the most terrible thing of all: his grown up self. Can Tycho prevent the terrible future he sees from coming true?

Fingers

Eighteen year old Sam has always been jealous of his younger brother, Humphrey, the famous ‘wonder child’ pianist. But now that Humphrey is fifteen, the one time child prodigy isn’t able to get any more bookings. Sam’s mother refuses to accept that Humphrey’s career is over and devises a scheme to recapture his fame: Sam will compose ‘new works’ by a long dead gypsy composer, and they will tell the world that the composer is dictating the music to Humphrey from the grave. The scheme is a wild success until some ghostly occurrences convince Sam that the spirit of the dead composer has actually taken over Humphrey’s Fingers. Have Sam and his family unleashed a force from beyond the grave?

Singularity

Sixteen year old twins Harry and Barry Krasner stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship. Reissue. K. AB.

The Boy Who Reversed Himself

When Laura finds her homework in her locker with its writing reversed, she’s baffled, until she learns an unbelievable secret: her weird neighbor, Omar, has the ability to travel to the fourth dimension. Laura forces him to take her there–and then, a novice in four-space, she goes there on her own. There’s only one problem–she doesn’t know how to get back. A cerebral science-fiction thriller, cunningly constructed to keep the reader involved until the last pages. –The Horn Book

The Duplicate

When David finds a mysterious machine that can copy living things, he thinks his problems are over. Now he can be in two places at once: at his grandmother’s and out on a date. While the other David is in school, the real one can spend the day at the beach. The possibilities are endless. And they turn terrifying. David’s duplicate has a mind, ideas, and desires of his own and one of them is to see the real David dead.’Sleator’s mastery of suspense will leave readers breathless.’ School Library Journal, starred review

Strange Attractors

‘In Sleator’s richly imagined fictional treatment of the scientific world’s chaos theory the Strange Attractors are people from a parallel universe…
. Max, a teenage science student, is forced to become their unwilling ally…
. Sleator’s marriage of chaos theory and the conventions of time travel is an ingenious literary conceit beautifully executed.’ School Library Journal.

The Spirit House

Fifteen year old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.

Others See Us

When an accidental dunking in toxic waste gives sixteen year old Jared the ability to read minds, he discovers horrifying secrets about family members during a summer reunion. SLJ.

The Night the Heads Came

There’s no such thing as an alien at least, that’s what Leo thinks until he and his friend Tim are abducted one night. When Leo comes to, Tim is gone, and no one believes his story. After Leo sees a psychiatrist and undergoes hypnosis, even he doesn’t believe his story. But then memories begin to surface, and when Tim suddenly returns, Leo knows they are in otherworldly, extraterrestrial danger. The author’s many fanswill find plenty here to please. Kirkus Reviews William Sleator is the author of many enormously popular science fiction and suspense thrillers for young adults. He divides his time between Boston and Bangkok.

The Beasties

The master of suspense delivers a hard core horror story to thrill and chill. Fans will get more than goose bumps from this terrifying tour de force by William Sleator. The nightmare begins when Doug’s family moves to the desolate northern woods; soon he and his little sister, Colette, become caught up in a war between the area’s loggers and a dying race of woodland creatures who depend on human body parts for their survival. Tunnels, tunnels, leading everywhere…
even right into Doug and Colette’s baseme*nt. But who built them? Could the rumors about the mysterious, bloodthirsty kidnappers called The Beasties possibly be true? Skeptical Doug doesn’t buy it at first, even if an unusual number of the local inhabitants seem to be missing important pieces of their anatomies. But once he and his sister stumble into a cavernous opening and meet the Beastie scout named Fingers, Doug is forced to become a believer. Colette soon is indoctrinated into the society of the Family, an underground civilization of slimy, pale beings with crudely stitched together body parts. Doug desperately hopes to remain an outsider, but it seems he has no choice. In fact, the Family needs him to make the biggest sacrifice of all. If he tries to escape, he faces an awful truth one that readers, too, will learn: Once you have met The Beasties, you will never be safe again. Hailed by R. L. Stine as ‘one of my favorite young adult writers,’

Rewind

When Peter is hit by a car, he is given the ultimate do-over: go back to any point in time before that fateful moment, and alter the events leading up to his death. If he fails, he will die again-this time, for good. Now Peter’s racing against time to save his own life, but what should he change? His adoptive parents don’t understand him, the school jock is out to get him, and no one appreciates his own talents. This may be his last chance-can Peter cheat death, or will he be lost forever?

Boltzmon!

With a devious older sister who wishes he hadn’t been born, eleven year old Chris needs some heavenly intervention. But when that help arrives in the form of a boltzmon the all knowing, shape shifting remnant of a black hole Chris is in even bigger trouble. In this clever sci fi twist on the genie tales of folklore, a young boy suddenly has access to more power than he can handle. The highly unstable boltzmon flips Chris at random to different worlds, including one of his own imagining. It is in Arteria, a country he has mapped out on his computer, that Chris has the chance to confront his sister, Lulu, and end their rivalry before it has deadly consequences.A villainous older sister, a quantum physics genie with a weird sense of humor, and a sharp young hero this Bermuda triangle of characters is at the center of a funny, frightening novel in the spirit of William Sleator’s masterwork, Interstellar Pig.

The Boy Who Couldn’t Die

William Sleator, a master of science fiction, has turned to horror, creating a novel with the creepiness of a genre classic and the mind twists of his best selling House of Stairs. I’m lying in some kind of box, and I’m paralyzed I can’t move an arm, a leg, a finger. I have no voice, because my breathing is so shallow it’s like I’m hardly aware of breathing at all. I feel very cold. My temperature is so far below normal that if I weren’t paralyzed I’d be shivering uncontrollably. I have the disgusting sensation that bugs are crawling under my skin, but I can’t move to scratch. And then everything goes black when they fit a cover onto the box. Now I understand: They think I’m dead, and they’re burying me in a coffin. I try to scream, to bang on the lid of the coffin as I hear the nails being pounded in, the coffin shaking with each slam of the hammer. But I can’t move; I can’t make a sound. They really think I’m dead! And now they’re lowering the coffin into the ground. In a moment something heavy and porous falls down on top of the coffin. Earth. They’re burying me alive. I’m doing everything in my power to scream and bang but I can’t move and I can’t make a sound. from The Boy Who Couldn’t Die ‘William Sleator is…
one of my favorite young adult writers.’ R. L. Stine, author of the Fear Street series When his best friend is killed in a plane crash, Ken makes a decision: He will never die. As the only child of rich, indulgent parents, Ken is used to getting his way, and this time is no different. He finds a woman who claims she can make him invulnerable to pain and death for the unbelievably cheap price of fifty dollars. And her strange ritual works. Ken can’t be burned, beaten up, or even bitten by the sharks he dives amongst on his spring break in the Caribbean. Ken can’t die, but he can kill. As long as he’s awake, he feels in complete control of his life. But at night the dreams take over dreams of digging up graves, of knifing perfect strangers…
then of trying to murder someone he loves. And no one can stop him, not even himself.

The Last Universe

Sleator is at his sci fi best with this quantum thriller, now available in paperback

In this gothic, sci fi thriller from a master storyteller, Susan and her wheelchair bound brother, Gary, discover a mysterious maze in the vast gardens of their isolated home. Planted by a scientist uncle who disappeared long ago, the maze offers seemingly endless routes and choices. The teenagers discover that each turn they take alters their world in some way. Sickly Gary sees a chance to change his fate; Susan sees that they may both be lost forever. Sleator keeps readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.

Praise for The Last Universe

‘Sleator is a master of suspenseful science fiction and that mastery is evident here…
entirely shocking.’ School Library Journal

‘Science fiction fans, science nerds, and random readers alike will appreciate this latest offering.’ Voya

‘Sleator has fashioned a perfect ‘what if’ story.’ Kliatt

‘Will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.’ Kirkus

Hell Phone

A modern murder story with a devilish twistMaster of horror William Sleator has created another creepy, heart pumping classic in Hell Phone. Nick wants a cell phone so he can talk to his girlfriend, Jen, after school, and the used phone he buys seems like a bargain. That is, until the phone calls begin demanding, disturbed strangers calling night and day. At first Nick wants to get rid of the phone, but the creepy callers and the phone’s ghoulish games pull him into a web of crime, pushing him to steal, con…
and kill. Fans of Sleator s The Boy Who Couldn t Die will enjoy this equally diabolical thriller. Praise for Hell Phone An entertaining and unquestionably dark diversion…
Publishers Weekly Sleator, the author of Interstellar Pig, The Boy Who Couldn t Die, and many other SF thrillers for YAs, excels at this genre, and horror fans will enjoy every nasty detail. Kliatt A suspense filled plot and touches of macabre humor will appeal to both horror fans and reluctant readers. Kirkus The rapid pace and vivid, unsettling conception of the Inferno will grab horror readers. School Library Journal

Test

Pass, and have it made fail, and suffer the consequences. A master of teen thrillers tests readers courage in an edge of your seat novel that echoes the fears of exam takers everywhere. Ann, a teenage girl living in the security obsessed, elitist United States of the very near future, is threatened on her way home from school by a mysterious man on a black motorcycle. Soon, she and a new friend are caught up in a vast conspiracy of greed involving the megawealthy owner of a school testing company. Students who pass his test have it made; those who don t disappear…
or worse. Will Ann be next? For all those who suspect standardized tests are an evil conspiracy, here’s an edge of your seat thriller that really satisfies.

Oddballs

‘From creepy to hilarious to murkily outlandish: a freewheeling science fiction nightmare/comedy from the inventive William Sleator…
Steady, challenging amuseme*nt for savvy readers.’ Kirkus Reviews, pointer review. An ALA Notable Book; ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

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