I'm sure many of you recall R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series. I remember that was huge here in Australia, and it even took over the schoolyard with kids bringing their respective collections to school etc. Of course it was a positive thing as it got kids into reading. It sure worked for me.
But after Goosebumps was finished, I got into another series by K.A. Applegate, Animorphs. It's about a bunch of teenagers from America who are given alien morphing technology in order to fight the Yeerks - a sentient race of parasitic slugs that crawl inside the host brain and take complete control of their target. And humans are their latest target.
The books were marketed towards kids, and were enjoyed by kids like myself, but Applegate and her husband employed many themes that flew over my head at the time. There was one book (Visser I believe) where she made reference to Scientology. Other books dealt with stuff like PTSD and genocide etc.
So just wondering, any other fans here? The only disappointment I have with Animorphs is that it never got a better tv show. There was a terrible series on Nickelodeon which was hampered by a poor budget. And a Game Boy title that was a cheap Pokemon ripoff. If Animorphs came out now and was a smash hit, what they could come up with with a Netflix show, or a Game on the PS4/Switch etc. would be potentially amazing.
Favourite book in the series was The Andalite Chronicles btw. All the chronicles books were fantastic.
But after Goosebumps was finished, I got into another series by K.A. Applegate, Animorphs. It's about a bunch of teenagers from America who are given alien morphing technology in order to fight the Yeerks - a sentient race of parasitic slugs that crawl inside the host brain and take complete control of their target. And humans are their latest target.
The books were marketed towards kids, and were enjoyed by kids like myself, but Applegate and her husband employed many themes that flew over my head at the time. There was one book (Visser I believe) where she made reference to Scientology. Other books dealt with stuff like PTSD and genocide etc.
So just wondering, any other fans here? The only disappointment I have with Animorphs is that it never got a better tv show. There was a terrible series on Nickelodeon which was hampered by a poor budget. And a Game Boy title that was a cheap Pokemon ripoff. If Animorphs came out now and was a smash hit, what they could come up with with a Netflix show, or a Game on the PS4/Switch etc. would be potentially amazing.
Favourite book in the series was The Andalite Chronicles btw. All the chronicles books were fantastic.