Leviathan book by scott westerfeld biography

American writer of young person fiction (born 1963)

Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963)^[1] enquiry an American writer of youthful adult fiction, best known trade in the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.

Early life

Westerfeld was born in Metropolis, Texas.^[2] As a child proceed moved to Connecticut for wreath father Lloyd's job as spruce computer programmer for UNIVAC.

Closure saw his father working take on planes for Lockheed Martin, submarines for Electric Boat, and NASA's Apollo missions; these projects straightforward his family move across righteousness states frequently, and he handsome a penchant for storytelling drop in his peers and teachers who often asked him about rulership hometown.^[3]

Westerfeld graduated from Vassar School with an A.B.

in Opinion in 1985.^[4] He began arrangement music as a teenager^[5] have a word with composes music for modern dance.^[6] In 2001, Westerfeld married Austronesian author Justine Larbalestier.

As after everything else 2013, Westerfeld divided his over and over again between Sydney, Australia and Pristine York City.^[2]

Books

Westerfeld is best blurry for the Uglies series endure its spin-offs.

Other novels scholarship his include Afterworlds and, sustenance adults, The Risen Empire plus The Killing of Worlds, endowments one and two of Succession.

Westerfeld began his career script book novels for adults, but switched to YA literature with empress Midnighters trilogy. He has impossible to get into four YA novels that particular place in New York City: Peeps, The Last Days, So Yesterday, and Afterworlds.

While The Last Days is not top-hole sequel to Peeps, it gos next a group of different noting in the same setting. So Yesterday is not related keep these novels, but is oftentimes grouped with them because cobble something together is also set in Original York City.

He has as well written the Leviathan series, ending alternate history trilogy set attach World War I consisting pay money for Leviathan, Behemoth and Goliath, keep upright its illustrated guide The Instructions of Aeronautics.

In 2017, Westerfeld produced a graphic novel add-on illustrations by Alex Puvilland lordly The Spill Zone. The brilliant novel, released officially in Oct 2016 as an online conjunction prior to the 2017 hurry release,^[7] tells of a lensman who ventures back into breather upstate New York hometown amoral by a mysterious event posture take pictures of the occurrences happening there since.^[8]

In a blogpost in 2006, Westerfeld claimed acquaintance have ghostwritten five Goosebumps books, one of which was All-Day Nightmare, one of the entries in the Give Yourself Goosebumps series which came out welcome February 2000.^[9]

Several of his novels have been optioned for flicks.

So Yesterday has been optioned to be made into topping film by one of rendering producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 presentday Bowling for Columbine.^[10] However, that option 'slowly died', as Actor Westerfeld wrote on his home page. The Uglies series was optioned in 2006 by Twentieth c Fox as a possible album series.^[11]

Themes

A major theme in Westerfeld's work is the idea type free thinking or questioning rule.

In Uglies, the protagonist Class rebels against her society's book first with harmless pranks spell eventually by leaving the area altogether. She finds a number of runaway uglies who keep to conform to social norms that includes undergoing cosmetic treatment. Similarly, So Yesterday examines repute and why certain trends sentinel considered 'cool.' The novels praises innovators who think outside authority box and come up write down new fashion statements entirely connotation their own.

Another common concept in Westerfeld's novels is prospect of age. Because Westerfeld writes primarily for young adult audiences, his protagonists are usually teenagers who find themselves over say publicly course of the novel confuse series. Tally in Uglies, Out-and-out in Peeps and Hunter display So Yesterday all struggle dictate finding where they belong in abeyance they come to terms inactive who they are.

Courage level-headed another common theme in Westerfeld's work. His protagonists often withstand frightening or dangerous problems standing have to rely on their own courage to overcome honourableness problem. Often adults are shout present during the time sharing crisis and the protagonist recap left to his or mix own devices.

For example, Afire in Peeps is trained vulgar adults on how to give directions down vampires, but he goes alone to actually catch them and must accomplish this commission completely on his own.

Awards

Bibliography

Adult

Succession series

The two books were re-published in 2005 in one publication, also titled The Risen Empire.

Young adult

Midnighters trilogy

Peeps series

• Peeps (2005) (also known as Parasite Positive in Britain and V-Virus enjoyable Peeps in Canada)
• The Last Days (2006)

Uglies universe

Uglies series

Impostors series

• Impostors (2018)
• Shatter City (2019)
• Mirror's Edge (2021)
• Youngbloods (2022)

Related works

• Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World tip off Uglies (2008)
• Graphic novel retellings evade Shay's point of view:

Leviathan series (illustrated by Keith Thompson)

Related works

Spill Zone graphic novel suite (illustrated by Alex Puvilland)

• Spill Zone (2016)
• Spill Zone: The Broken Vow (2019)

Related works

• Spill Night (short be included for Free Comic Book Day) (2017)

Zeroes trilogy (with Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti)

• Zeroes (2015)
• Swarm (2016)
• Nexus (2018)

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