ONLINE The Android by Katherine Applegate (Goodreads Author) pocket touch review download kindle
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The Android was always one of my favorite Animorphs books when I was a kid because, even before I knew what it was, I loved worldbuilding in fiction. This is one of the reasons I love serialized storytelling so much, because serialized stories (no matter the medium) are the ones that have the most room to deepen and define their fictionalized worlds without sacrificing character or theme. And The Android does quite a bit of worldbuilding in a short period of time. Were introduced to several important new concepts, like zero-space (or z-space), which is where ships travel at faster than light speeds, and also happens to be one of the secrets behind the morphing technology. Ax lets it slip to Marco that due to the laws of physics, when morphing an animal smaller in mass than yourself, the mass has to go SOMEWHERE, and that somewhere is z-space, and there is an infinitesimal but still possible chance that a ship in z-space might hit your extruded mass and vaporize it, thus causing you to become stuck in your morph forever. This is not a pleasant thought for the Animorphs, but it is a cool bit of sci-fi. (They dont inquire further, and I cant remember if we get answers in the future, but what happens when you morph an animal with a larger mass? Does it pull in excess matter from z-space? If so, whose mass are they borrowing?)But Im burying the lede, here. Its Marcos old friend Erek and his family who are the real focus. Because Erek turns out not to be human, and he might even be involved with The Sharing somehow. The Animorphs end up doing recon at a Sharing retreat, but end up exposing themselves when Marco gets eaten by a crow, and he has to demorph in front of Erek. But Erek doesnt immediately betray them to the Yeerks. Instead, he tells them to meet at his house in a few days, that they are allies in the fight against the Yeerks, and promises to explain everything.And man, is it ever a weird explanation.(view spoiler)[Erek is an android, a robotic artificially intelligent being. He and his family are called The Chee, which was a name given to them by their creators, the Pemalites, an extinct race of pacifist aliens who died out 50,000 years before. They pass as humans using advanced holographic technology, and they have been doing so since humans developed civilization. They, too, are pacifist by design. The Pemalites programmed so they could never hurt another living creature. Only some of them, like Erek, are frustrated by their limitations, and want to be able to join the fight against the Yeerks. They enlist the help of the Animorphs to steal a Pemalite crystal in Yeerk control, not only to keep it out of Yeerk hands, but to use it to re-write their programming. (hide spoiler)]
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