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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Nothing but endless flights of stairs leading nowhereexcept back to a strange. Barbara vine is a pen name of the writer ruth rendell. Publication date 1974 topics science fiction publisher. Download the boy who reversed himself, william sleator. I first encountered it in junior high, and it left a chill that has never completely left. One by one, five sixteenyearold orphans are brought to a strange. The first edition of the novel was published in 1974, and was written by william sleator. Science fiction, juvenile fiction, brainwashing, technology. In this episode we discussed house of stairs, by william sleator.
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