The Intergalactic Academy

If this is your first time dipping into the Animorphs Re-Read, I strongly suggest you head back to the beginning and start there unless you’re already familiar with the books. Alternatively, check out our new and improved Animorphs Re-Read index for a list of every post in the series. Welcome to this week’s episode of Cassie Turns Into Things! This time, Cassie turns into the preserved memory of an Andalite/Hork-Bajir nothlit in a [...] More »

It feels like I have always been obsessed with the concept of time travel, though I can probably trace it back to one specific source: The Terminator. I remember watching the movie as a child, and though I wasn’t a huge fan of Arnold or robots from the future, I could not get enough of the time travel elements. Mostly because it confused the crap out of me. How was [...] More »

Preliminary Scan: Jamey Barlowe has been crippled since childhood, the result of beingborn on the Moon. He lives his life in a wheelchair, only truly free when he is in the water. But then Jamey’s father sends him, along with five other kids, back to the Moon to escape a political coup d’etatthat has occurred overnight in the United States. Moreover, one of the other five refugees is more [...] More »

If this is your first time dipping into the Animorphs Re-Read, I strongly suggest you head back to the beginning and start there unless you’re already familiar with the books. Alternatively, check out our new and improved Animorphs Re-Read index for a list of every post in the series. Here we go, Animorphs #33: The Illusion! Judging by the title, I’m guessing it’s about magicians. Here’s the cover: Wait, I got [...] More »

Welcome to the our recap of Space Cases episode 1.06, “Nowhere Man” For an introduction, please see this post, and feel free to watch along with us on youtube! In an opening wildly divergent from other episode openings, we start with a shot of the Christa flying through space. But then we cut to the ship’s interior, late afternoon (or whenever), where Harlan is playing with some tinker toys. [...] More »

Preliminary Scan: It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait [...] More »

If this is your first time dipping into the Animorphs Re-Read, I strongly suggest you head back to the beginning and start there unless you’re already familiar with the books. Alternatively, check out our new and improved Animorphs Re-Read index for a list of every post in the series. After a break last week, I’m back with Animorphs #32: The Separation. There’s no ghostwriter this time, because The Separation is the last [...] More »

Welcome to the our recap of Space Cases episode 1.05, “Forever Young” For an introduction, please see this post, and feel free to watch along with us on youtube! Our episode opens with some beautiful 90s CGI. You know, in this era my desktop backgrounds usually consisted of very, very nebulae-heavy starscapes. I wonder why! The kids are planning some sort of joke on Davenport and– wait a minute! [...] More »

Preliminary Scan:  Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, Terra, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses her father who died mysteriously, but she’s never really questioned it. Much like how she’s never stopped to think how off it is that she’s never been sick. That is, until she’s struck by a car and is exposed [...] More »

Happy Thursday, Space Cadets! There will be no Animorphs this week due to reasons of Sean’s birthday. Happy birthday Sean! We’re also celebrating another anniversary this week–our own! We launched one year ago, and we’re so proud of all we’ve done here–covering 68 science fiction YA and MG titles in our first year alone (not to mention recaps of 31 Animorphs titles, articles, interviews, and more!). [...] More »