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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2908 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 16, 2026

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Animorphs is a single series of scifi books by K. A. Applegate, featuring a small group of teenagers who stumble upon an alien conspiracy to take over the earth and have to fight it using a different alien's tech that gave them magical shapeshifting. It's like Power Rangers, but except where Power Rangers has teenagers with attitude beating up monsters of the week with giant mechs, switch out 'attitude' for variants of shellshock, 'monsters of the week' with family or friends getting taken over by brainworms, and 'giant mechs' with Rachel turning into a bear. Good, but gets very dark. ('Here I go committing mass murder again!') Can be harder reads, though: advanced kids might be able to get them in the 10+ age range, but especially the later or large books would be difficult before 14 for most kids.

For anybody who liked Animorphs as a kid, I strongly recommend r!Animorphs: The Reckoning, a rational reimagining of the series. It's even darker, the setting is tweaked to make more sense, and the characters are much smarter (especially Visser Three, because you can't give Frodo a lightsaber without giving Sauron the Death Star).

It's Animorphs for grownups.

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