![]() ![]() This ambivalent standing is not new, but rather, it is traceable to the original works in the subgenre, which often melded a post-World War II fascination with technological innovation and gadgetry with sexist assumptions about the interests of boys and girls. 1 One reason for this deficiency might be the conflicted status of young adult science fiction in contemporary scholarship. Sleator's insights into philosophical subjects and late-twentieth-century American culture remain underappreciated in criticism. Sleator wrote over thirty novels, including popular titles like House of Stairs (1974), Interstellar Pig (1984), The Boy Who Reversed Himself (1986), and Rewind (1999). When William Sleator died in 2011, the literary world lost one of its most provocative authors of young adult science fiction. ![]()
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