Alfred Slote is a children's author known for his numerous sports and space novels. His writing has been described as "making space travel seem as ordinary as piling in the family wagon for a jaunt to McDonald's". Slote's 1991 novel Finding Buck McHenry was adapted into a 2000 television film. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2010 census places the population at 113,934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 344,791 as of 2010...

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Works

• Denham Proper (1953)* Lazarus in Vienna (1956)
• The Princess Who Wouldn't Talk (1964)
• Strangers and Comrades (1964)
• The Moon in Fact and Fancy (1967)
• Air in Fact and Fancy' (1968)
• Termination; the closing at Baker plant (1969)
• Stranger on the Ball Club (1970)
• Jake (1971)
• The Biggest Victory (1972)

• My Father, the Coach (1972)
• Hang Tough, Paul Mather (1973)
• Tony and Me (1974)
• Matt Gargan's Boy (1975)
• The Hotshot (1977)
• Love and Tennis (1979)
• The Devil Rides With Me and Other Fantastic Stories (1980)
• Clone Catcher (1982)
• Rabbit Ears (1982)
• A Friend Like That (1988)
• Moving In (1988)
• Make-Believe Ball Player (1989)
• The Trading Game (1990)
• Finding Buck McHenry (1991)

Robot Buddy series

• My Robot Buddy (1975)
• My trip to Alpha I (1978)
• C.O.L.A.R. : a tale of outer space (1981)
• Omega Station (1983)
• The Trouble on Janus (1985)

Slote's five book series shows the life of Jack Jameson and his robot buddy Danny One as they have adventures in a future society that has developed androids that mimic human beings perfectly and has space transportation via cryonics

Cryonics

Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of humans and animals who can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future. Cryopreservation of people or large animals is not reversible with current technology...

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