Books
Scott Westerfeld is well known for the Uglies series. He also wrote The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds, parts one and two of the same work, originally titled Succession, published in the UK in 2005 under the title The Risen Empire.
Scott Westerfeld has written a manga series called Shay's Story. This book is now available. Scott Westerfeld has also written the Leviathan trilogy, consisting of Leviathan, Behemoth, Goliath, and The Manual of Aeronautics, an illustrated guide to the Leviathan series.
Scott Westerfeld has revealed on his blog that he is currently writing another book. For now, nothing about it is known to the public.
His novels have also been optioned for films: So Yesterday has been optioned to be made into a film by one of the producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine. However, this option 'slowly died', as Scott Westerfeld wrote on his blog. The Uglies series was optioned in 2006 by Twentieth Century Fox as a possible film series. The script has recently been written.
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