William Sleator & the Piggy Leave Earth Behind

[speedlime]

One of the things I love about my job is the opportunity it affords me to inflict my obsessions on the rest of the world (DT, there will come a day...). Sometimes it's a sad task-- like today. William Sleator-- the guy who wrote child-scarring tomes of awesomeness like Singularity and Interstellar Pig died last week, and the good folks at NPR

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[somewanker]

I stole the idea of the pig and stuck it right into the my fantasy campaign in college. Was huge fun. The player would throw it into a rope trick, it would hiccup, and then fall down out of nowhere.

Glad you got to do something for him. I keep thinking I should go back and read more of his stuff.

[speedlime]

Badass! I highly recommend Singularity or The Green Futures of Tycho.