Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
William Sleator

Born: February 13, 1945
Died: August 3, 2011 (aged 66)
Bio: William Warner Sleator III, known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers.
Known for:
- House of Stairs (1974)
- Interstellar Pig (1984)
- The Boy Who Couldn't Die (2004)
- The Boy Who Reversed Himself (1986)
- The Last Universe (2005)