Strasser, Todd
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1950- ) US author, highly prolific in children's and Young Adult fiction, with more than 140 such titles published. His first sf novel, The Mall from Outer Space (1987), was a juvenile in which shopping malls are taken over by Aliens. His remaining sf consists mainly of film Ties, where his novelizations include Honey, I Blew up the Kid (1992), Super Mario Brothers (1993), Addams Family Values (1993) and a tale set in the Star Wars universe. His Here Comes Heavenly and Help! I'm Trapped sequences – fantasy series for younger readers, the latter with a recurring Identity Exchange theme – are not listed below. The Beast of Cretacea (2015), a tale explicitly indebted to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: Or, The Whale (1851 2vols), marks a return to sf: its young protagonists, having escaped an Earth devastated by Climate Change, gain work on another planet, where they are endangered by a captain obsessively in pursuit of a great white "terrafin". Ecological concerns are sharply, if broadly, emphasized. [JC/DRL]
Todd Strasser
born New York: 5 October 1950
works (highly selected)
series
Star Wars
- Star Wars: Star Wars Journal: Anakin Skywalker (New York: Scholastic, 1999) [tie to the Star Wars universe: Star Wars Journal: pb/]
individual titles
- The Mall from Outer Space (New York: Scholastic, 1987) [pb/]
- Honey, I Blew up the Kid (New York: Scholastic, 1992) [tie to the film: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (see Honey, I Shrunk the Kids): pb/]
- Super Mario Brothers (London: Fantail, 1993) [tie to the film: Super Mario Bros.: pb/]
- Addams Family Values (New York: Pocket Books, 1993) [tie to the film: Addams Family Values (1993): pb/]
- Jumanji (New York: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1995) [tie to the film: Jumanji (1995): pb/]
- How I Spent My Last Night on Earth (New York: Simon Pulse, 2000) [pb/]
- Fallout (Somerville, Maine: Candlewick Press, 2013) [hb/]
- The Beast of Cretacea (Somerville, Maine: Candlewick Press, 2015) [hb/Lia Strasser]
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