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With his works consistently nominated for "Best Book" honors on subjects ranging from the occult to the scientific study of chaos, William Sleator has become a popular sci-fi author for young-adults. "Everybody in my family is a scientist except me. I always liked science but was never good enough to be a real scientist; I was the dumbest person in the advanced class. Still, I learned a lot. I prefer science fiction that has some basis in reality: psychological stories, time-travel stories, but especially stories about people. My book Singularity is about several things--including the idea of time speeding up or slowing down in relation to gravity--but it's also about the relationship between two brothers. My best books have a physical reality.
"What I don't like are space operas which are violent war stories that take place with spacemen in rocket ships instead of gunslingers on horses."
Sleator was born on February 13, 1945, in Havre de Grace, Maryland, "because at that time, my father was doing research on ballistics for the army during the war.
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