The Animorphs Cookbook

We got boys turning into skinwalker dogs to listen to the Offspring while robot dogs manipulate mankind to look after actual dogs! It's topsy-turvy in Book 10 as we are introduced to the Chee and a major expansion to Animorph cosmology.

In , Caleb talks about verisimilitude, the acceleration of the series away from it, and how Applegate and Grant avoid one of the biggest traps in modern fiction.
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We're back with the next Cassie book, so you know this tree-hugging has claws...and smells! The gang joins our heroes as they agonize over the ethics of carnivores and the logistics of practical ecoterrorism, and we try not to get too hung up on that time the body-snatching alien army got beaten by a skunk.

In , Max walks us through some of the history of US environmentalism informing the Animorphs and ways the evolution of those issues affect our reading today.

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Ax book! Ax book! Ax book! It's time for the first foray of our fan-favorite narrator. The gang talks about delicious globules, the charm of stupid plans, and Animorphs as high farce.

Then it's Caleb's turn to reply-all some < thoughtspeak > as he refamilizarizes our audience with "defamiliarization," the Russian formalists, and alienated perspective as an essential sci-fi tool.

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With the series on the way to moon, it's time for the first Megamorphs! We break down the first super-sized helping of Animorphs like a swarm of nanomachines eating a birthday party.

In thoughspeak, Thaddeus provides us the shortest title for a critical examination of Animorphs thus far :"All Novels Are Megamorphs, or The Novel is the Genre of Chaos (Complimentary)" Mikhail Bakhtin shows up for the first time as a guest, and it won't be the last time.

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It's Elimist time! The ultimate race of deus ex machina-loving John de Lancie analogs shows up to stop our heroes from non-consensual vore and ask "Dr. Who, who?" We reintroduce the series' #1 bullshit wizard and prep for the ensuing time shenanigans.

Fittingly, all this time-travel has Max Thoughtspeaking about contingency and lost futures.

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