Animorphs

One of the 40s...47 maybe?

48, The Return.

I remember as a kid seeing that bookcover in the store and somehow coming to the conclusion that the animorphs later develop the ability to morph customized bodies.

I came to the same conclusion.

That book probably gave me the nightmares about Jell-O and being absorbed by such that troubled my younger mind.

Which in hindsight would be pretty damn cool.

Anywho, here is Book 42: The Journey. [1]

In the grand tradition of stock plots, here is the shrinking episode.

The second one you mean.

Now I am honestly curious if a shark could survive in a person's bloodstream. It would probably die eventually but who knows, it could survive for an hour or two.

Arteries or veins?

What exactly would the difference be other than size?

I don't know how it would be able to breathe... how much oxygen is just floating around in your blood, unbound to proteins and stuff? Is it more or less than what's in seawater?

And I don't understand how they could see inside the blood

edited 4th Aug '12 6:47:05 PM by LoniJay

Or how they could think (when morphing a small animal there's at least a sort of justification in that most of the consciousness is shoved into Z-Space, when you're shrunk you're messing up either biology or nuclear physics).

edited 5th Aug '12 3:02:19 AM by MattII

Isn't it possible that the morphing technology provides the basis for the shrink ray in some ways?

When you morph you throw your mass into Z-space (or draw some out) and rearrange it into an animal. The shrink ray could just send your mass to Z-space without forcing you to reorganize it into a different animal.

I don't think a shark (or anything else) could breathe in blood. When oxygen moves from the lungs to the bloodstream, it is picked up and bound by hemoglobin in the red blood cells (this is the primary function of red blood cells), so it wouldn't be floating free in the bloodstream to be breathed.

But, as has been noted in this review and previous ones, the Animorphs books aren't strong on accurate science. Which is a pity. If you're going to write a book about kids transforming into animals, at the very least you should have a thorough understanding of biology.

It was actually very explicit that the Helmacrons developed the shrink ray by reverse-engineering the morphing cube. So yes, the loss of matter issue would work the same way.

Anywho, here is Book 43: The Test. Taylor is back, Tobias has PTSD, and everyone digs a large hole. [1]

Tobias as Taylor+Taylor-someone start the bad porno music.

What book had the hork-bajir on the cover?

That would be Book 34: The Prophecy.

Thanks :)

I really loved Visser, although One should have told Three that the Animorphs were human.

Why?

Yeah... if I were Visser One I'd have a lot more fun watching Visser Three humiliate himself with poor information than in telling him something that could easily result in him succeeding and ending up in position to challenge my authority.

Did we ever get to meet Visser Two in this series?

Wasn't he on the one where the Yeerks and US Navy ended up in a battle on board an aircraft carrier? And Ax threatened to nuke a city?

Seems a bit improbable really, surely Vissers, at that level, are assigned to their own planetary invasions/occupation (ie, Visser 4 was responsible for all of the Leeran invasion, or something of the sort), not as subservient officers, particularly not to lower-ranking Vissers.

It does seem a bit weird that even though the Yeerks are fighting a multi-front war on several planets and against a massive spacefaring fleet, all of their high ranking officers are working on the same mission.

edited 18th Aug '12 8:24:23 AM by KnownUnknown