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Zane posted:Weren't they called the Chee?
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Nov 17, 2017 05:18
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Were not the Chee like literally unkillable? Because I think I remember there is a book where they go to another Alien world to fight the things that killed the Pemalites and the Chee "kid" literally cannot die or something like that.
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Nov 22, 2017 02:28
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Yeah they were balanced by the aforementioned pacifism. He was still useful. When they're fighting the howlers he acted as a mobile living shield and doorway-blocker
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Nov 22, 2017 02:33
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I liked how animorphs became more and more of a space opera over time. At first it's mostly teen drama and standalone adventures, but after like ten or twenty books it becomes this Babylon 5/Star Gate/cosmic Marvel thing where there are a dozen different alien races running around and sometimes they go to other planets and weird poo poo happens and there are godlike aliens and cosmic battles and most stories fill out the world or advance the plot in some way. I remember there was an ongoing storyline across a number of books that the Andelite and Yeerk fleets were at war and I think the yeerks wound up getting trapped and beaten which is why they went from slowly infiltrating Earth to needing to conquer it now now now. It was neat because this thing happening in the background wound up changing the whole course of the series. I could be misremembering it though I also liked the bit toward the end where the yeerks got the morphing cube and the animorphs realized that if the Yeerks could morph then they wouldn't have to live as parasites any more and might leave humanity alone, but they would also be way more dangerous and might conquer us even quicker. PS I don't remember what happened to the colony of free Hork Bajir that was living in the mountains for like twenty books. Did they die with the disabled kids or what?
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Nov 22, 2017 06:45
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They were the noble savage race. Getting screwed over is kind of their thing
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Nov 22, 2017 07:16
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Duckbox posted:PS I don't remember what happened to the colony of free Hork Bajir that was living in the mountains for like twenty books. Did they die with the disabled kids or what? The humans gave them a national park to live in after the war, I think it was Yosemite.
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Nov 22, 2017 14:51
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See, ther are happy endings Are there redwoods in Yosemite? Because that's what horkies need
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Nov 22, 2017 15:01
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God these books were weird. Is there a count of how many Applegate actually wrote? I remember hearing she basically went full ghostwriter at 26 and then only came back for the end. I stopped reading at around thirty because the quality was kind of nosediving, so it checks out to me.
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Nov 22, 2017 15:58
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Ugly In The Morning posted:God these books were weird. Is there a count of how many Applegate actually wrote? I remember hearing she basically went full ghostwriter at 26 and then only came back for the end. I stopped reading at around thirty because the quality was kind of nosediving, so it checks out to me. Seems likely, that's about when I stopped
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Nov 22, 2017 16:04
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I got through the Illusion, the one here Tobias is tortured before I stopped reading, then I read the last three books.
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Nov 22, 2017 16:11
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Ugly In The Morning posted:God these books were weird. Is there a count of how many Applegate actually wrote? I remember hearing she basically went full ghostwriter at 26 and then only came back for the end. I stopped reading at around thirty because the quality was kind of nosediving, so it checks out to me. Someone explain to me how Ghostwriting works. Because it sounds like "hey random guy I'll let you write books with my characters and my name and I'll get all of the credit and most of the money".
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Nov 22, 2017 16:15
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Rough Lobster posted:Someone explain to me how Ghostwriting works. Because it sounds like "hey random guy I'll let you write books with my characters and my name and I'll get all of the credit and most of the money". A paycheck is a paycheck basically. A lot of ghostwritten stuff is actually a drat nice paycheck for what it is.
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Nov 22, 2017 16:18
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Rough Lobster posted:Someone explain to me how Ghostwriting works. Because it sounds like "hey random guy I'll let you write books with my characters and my name and I'll get all of the credit and most of the money". The ghostwriter gets a commission and then possibly some kind of residual but for a kids book in the 90’s probably not. Then they sit down with the author and work out the important story beats, what has to happen, etc. Then the ghost reads enough of the authors work to imitate it, then they do a draft and then either 2 things happen A) OG author edits draft into their story (these make better books) B) OG author gives notes and ghostwriter finishes Other publishing houses might work different but that is my understanding of how it’s done
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Nov 22, 2017 16:24
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I always wished that she could have written more books like the andalite chronicles, with just the battles on other worlds.
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Nov 25, 2017 06:59
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nsa would have rounded them up pretty quick. "computer, which phones were at the construction site near the mall last night?" *dracon beams them all in their sleep*
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