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An American Speculative Fiction writer who mainly targets his books towards young adults. The format that many of his stories take run along the lines of "What if (insert abnormal phenomenon) existed and a kid/a bunch of kids stumble upon it".

His works include:

Among The Dolls
The Angry Moon
The Beasties
Blackbriar
Boltzmon
The Boy Who Couldn't Die: A teenager responds to an ad in a newspaper purporting a way to live forever. He becomes a voodoo zombie.
The Boy Who Reversed Himself: A girl meets a boy who has the ability to travel in the fourth dimension.
The Cupcake
Dangerous Wishes
The Duplicate: A boy finds an alien device that clones himself.
The Elevator
Fingers
The Green Futures Of Tycho
Hell Phone
House of Stairs: Five children are trapped in a house filled with endless staircases and are forced to play mind games with a machine for sustinance.
Interstellar Pig
- Parasite Pig: The sequel.
Into The Dream
The Last Universe
Marco's Millions
- The Boxes: A girl discovers some strange creatures in a box that have the ability to distort a person's perception of time.
Monster
The Night The Heads Came
Oddballs
Once, Said Darlene
Others See Us
Rewind: A boy dies and his life is rewound back to a few weeks before his death in an attempt to rectify the situation.
Run
Singularity: A couple of twins discover a shack that has a strange Time Dilation effect due to its relationship to a black hole.
The Spirit House
Strange Attractors
Test
That's Silly

Tropes associated with William Sleator:

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 * ''[[Literature/The Cupcake|The Cupcake]]''
 * ''[[Literature/Dangerous Wishes|Dangerous Wishes]]''
-* ''[[The Duplicate (Literature)|The Duplicate]]'': A boy finds an alien device that clones himself.
+* ''[[The Duplicate]]'': A boy finds an alien device that clones himself.
 * ''[[Literature/The Elevator|The Elevator]]''
 * ''[[Literature/Fingers|Fingers]]''
 * ''[[Literature/The Green Futures Of Tycho|The Green Futures Of Tycho]]''
 * ''[[Literature/Hell Phone|Hell Phone]]''
-* ''[[House of Stairs (Literature)|House of Stairs]]'': Five children are trapped in a house filled with endless staircases and are forced to play mind games with a machine for sustinance.
+* ''[[House of Stairs]]'': Five children are trapped in a house filled with endless staircases and are forced to play mind games with a machine for sustinance.
-* ''[[Interstellar Pig (Literature)|Interstellar Pig]]''
+* ''[[Interstellar Pig]]''
 ** ''[[Literature/Parasite Pig|Parasite Pig]]'': The sequel.
 * ''[[Literature/Into The Dream|Into The Dream]]''
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 * ''[[Literature/Once Said Darlene|Once, Said Darlene]]''
 * ''[[Literature/Others See Us|Others See Us]]''
-* ''[[Rewind-William Sleator (Literature)|Rewind]]'': A boy dies and his life is rewound back to a few weeks before his death in an attempt to rectify the situation.
+* ''[[Rewind-William Sleator|Rewind]]'': A boy dies and his life is rewound back to a few weeks before his death in an attempt to rectify the situation.
 * ''[[Literature/Run|Run]]''
-* ''[[Singularity (Literature)|Singularity]]'': A couple of twins discover a shack that has a [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|strange]] [[Time Dilation]] effect due to its relationship to a black hole.
+* ''[[Singularity (novel)|Singularity]]'': A couple of twins discover a shack that has a [[Year Inside, Hour Outside|strange]] [[Time Dilation]] effect due to its relationship to a black hole.
 * ''[[Literature/The Spirit House|The Spirit House]]''
 * ''[[Literature/Strange Attractors|Strange Attractors]]''
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 * [[Applied Phlebotinum]]
-* [[Magic A Is Magic A]]
+* [[Magic a Is Magic A]]
 * [[What If]]