History Creator / ScottWesterfeld

* ''Literature/AfterWorlds''

* AuthorAppeal: Flying. He has admitted this. We have the Acrobat superpower as well as the Halfling wings in Midnighters. Hoverboards and the maglifts in the Uglies series, airships and zeppelins in the Leviathan series, and floating in Afterworlds. That’s not to mention all of the falling, climbing and peering over cliffs in his series.

* {{Nerd}}: Most of his books have at least one nerdy main character. Usually they are also a BadassBookworm.

* ''Literature/{{Succession}}''

* FaceHeelTurn/HeelFaceTurn/HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Most of his books will use at least one of these at some point.
* Fire-ForgedFriends: All of the Midnighters just so happen to run into each other. They each have a different power and have to work together to keep their town safe. Everyone’s power is important and they grow closer over time. Alek and Deryn come from two different sides of a war in Leviathan but must work together to survive and later fall in love. In Uglies, Tally and Shay keep on becoming best friends despite their city and the villain manipulating them and brainwashing them into hating each over and over. As well as making them fight each other.They always manage to slowly overcome this and it even manages to make their friendship stronger over time.

* LesYay and FoeYay: While this is never explicit in his books and can also be seen as a HerterosexualLifePartner or TrueCompanion kind of relationship, a lot of his female characters do seem to treat another female character as their soulmate or significant other. This is feeling is always mutual regardless if both characters have been proven to be straight with boyfriends and don’t have any romantic feelings for each other, there is still strong subtext even when the relationship is adversarial on both ends. The best examples of this are Tally and Shay(LesYay and FoeYay), Jessica and Dess(LesYay),Dess and Melissa(FoeYay),and Lillit and Deryn(LesYay).