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#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 Y
WE’RE GETTING ANIMORPHS RE-RELEASE WITH BEAUTIFUL NEW COVERS!!!!
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#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎 Y
WE’RE GETTING ANIMORPHS RE-RELEASE WITH BEAUTIFUL NEW COVERS!!!!
Animorphs #3: The Encounter thoughts (pt. 3):
Tobias is such a friggin' puritan. He's all "the human mind" this, "the hawk mind" that (p. 84, emphasis added) and I think part of what upsets him so much about killing a rat the first time is the sheer atavistic pleasure of doing something his body wants to do for once. He's not disgusted by rats as food but by "the ecstasy of the hunt. Ecstasy!" (p. 91). Tobias "the flesh is weak" "existence is a prison" Fangor needs to lighten up and learn to enjoy things sometimes, honestly. This team needs an Ax.
The moment where Marco throws the baseball has stuck with me for, like, decades. He and Tobias "will probably never be very close" (p. 16), he "doesn't want to be an Animorph" (p. 29), but he doesn't hesitate for a second to put himself in danger to save Tobias's life. Breaking the skylight isn't just selfless; it's reckless. Completely unlike Marco. But Tobias is in danger, and Marco — being Marco — has no choice.
Again, we see the team dynamics forming: Tobias cannot help needling Jake about how "I don't like this plan... maybe we should back off" (p. 111), and Jake cannot help getting annoyed because "I know it's not exactly ideal" and "Tobias, you were in on the planning right from the start". Buckle up for three more years of this, boys.
Tobias being heartbroken over the hork-bajir host losing his life because the yeerk in his head made a mistake is yet another moment that makes this series unique. You can kill POWs to hurt the enemy, or you can give up. Those are the only two options.
P. 149 mentions Marco having a bald eagle morph. Which won't come up again until #54, but apparently this was a thing that happened off-screen. Go figure.
RIP Tobias you would've loved "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell.
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Virgil Finlay (1911-1978) Let 'Em Eat Space by William Gray Beyer, Fantastic Stories of Imagination (February 1963) Source
Virgil Finlay (1911-1978) The Encounter (or The Venus Hunter) by JG Ballard, Amazing Stories (June 1963) Source
Virgil Finlay (1911-1978) Beyond the Line by William F. Temple, Fantastic Stories of Imagination (September 1964) Source
Virgil Finlay (1911-1978) The Sudden Afternoon by JG Ballard, Fantastic Stories of Imagination (September 1963) Source
Virgil Finlay (1911-1978) Jupiter Found by Robert S. Young, Amazing Stories (March 1963) Source
How strange. All this is like a dream.
Jorge Luis Borges, The Encounter
originally published 1969
I’m in need of one more voice actor for The Encounter, VAs please design your human character and choose how they’ll die in the animation
Decapitation is already taken by Annie
Fall damage is already taken by @skillfullymoltenbehemoth
Asphyxiation is already taken by @dragonkilatness
James Doohan (Mr. Johnson - Valley of the Shadow) is one of 4 regular Star Trek (1966) actors to have been in The Twilight Zone. William Shatner was in Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963) and Nick of Time (1960) . Leonard Nimoy was in A Quality of Mercy (1961), and George Takei in The Encounter (1964).