Interstellar Pig!

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When I was 8 or so, I found that book in our tiny local library and thought it was just so awesome it blew my mind. I always remembered it fondly. Years later, when I’d read some other books by Sleator like The Duplicate, The Boy Who Reversed Himself, Interstellar Pig, Singularity, and others, I happened to look up that old The Green Futures of Tycho book I had read as a kid and discovered that HEY! It was written by William Sleator! Wow! No wonder it was so good!

It’s great fun when that kind of thing happens.

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BTW, if you want creepy, try Sleator’s new book (though I’m not sure if it’s his newest) The Boy Who Couldn’t Die. The ice diving scenes gave me chills (from being creeped out, that is, not from imagining the cold) – if I had read it when I was a kid, at the “young adult” age the book is aimed for, it would have been even better.

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I recently reread it, and was surprised to find it was just as good as I remembered it to be.