The Green Futures of Tycho

The Green Futures of Tycho
The Green Futures of Tycho by William Sleator
Author	William Sleator
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Young adult, Science fiction novel
Publication date	1981
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)

The Green Futures of Tycho is a 1981 science fiction novel for young audiences by William Sleator. The book explores the effect of excessive parent expectations on the future of their children.

Plot summary

The main character is Tycho Tithonus, an 11-year-old boy. Each child in his family is named after a famous artist or scientist and their parents expect them to live up to their names. Tycho himself is named after Sleator's younger brother, who in turn, was named after Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer. He finds a pocket sized time machine in the family's garden. He immediately uses it to change some things from the past and to visit the future. But as he travels more and more he realizes that he is turning into something horrible and it becomes a race against time to save himself and his family from his own future self.

Further Information

The Green Futures of Tycho was one source of inspiration for the Interactive Fiction work Shrapnel by Adam Cadre.

External links

The Green Futures of Tycho - a fan site.

References

Works by William Sleator

The Angry Moon (1970)
Blackbriar (1972)
Run (1973)
House of Stairs (1974)
Among the Dolls (1975)
Into the Dream (1979)
Once, Said Darlene (1979)
The Green Futures of Tycho (1981)
That's Silly (1981)
Fingers (1983)
Interstellar Pig (1984)
Singularity (1985)
The Boy Who Reversed Himself (1986)
The Duplicate (1988)
Strange Attractors (1989)
The Spirit House (1991)
Others See Us (1993)
Oddballs (1993) (story collection)
The Elevator (1993) (story collection)
Dangerous Wishes (1995)
The Night the Heads Came (1996)
The Beasties (1997)
The Boxes (1998)
Rewind (1999)
Boltzmon! (1999)
Marco's Millions (2001)
Parasite Pig (2002)
The Boy Who Couldn't Die (2004)
The Last Universe (2005)
Hell Phone (2006)
Test (2008)
The Phantom Limb (2011)

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