The Intergalactic Academy

Preliminary Scan: Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now. Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. [...] 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. Welcome to my re-read of Animorphs #29: the Sickness, in which Cassie acquires and morphs the devil. Wait, no. She morphs a [...] More »

Welcome to the our recap of Space Cases episode 1.02, “Who Goes Where?” For an introduction, please see this post, and feel free to watch along with us on youtube! We cold open with a shot of a tiny Andromedan floating outside the Christa. Radu’s gone outside to fetch a teddy bear that was floating through the void of space for Rosie. She expresses completely rational concerns about contamination, [...] More »

It is the year 2129 . . . and fame is all that matters Susan and her friends are celebutantes. Their lives are powered by media awareness, fed by engineered meals, and underscored by cynicism. Everyone has a rating; the more viewers who ID you, the better. So Susan and her almost-boyfriend Derlock cook up a surefire plan: the nine of them will visit a Mars-bound [...] 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. First of all, apologies for not doing a re-read post last week. I was really really sick on Wednesday and Thursday, and [...] More »

Welcome to the first installment of our Space Cases recap series at the Intergalactic Academy! For an introduction, please see this post, and feel free to watch along with us on youtube! Our series begins with a cold cut to a bad CGI space station spinning through space to some EPIC MUSIC (which is all wonky on my version, since it was obviously uploaded from someone’s bad [...] More »

Preliminary Scan: The prequel to the New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series. Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and [...] More »

For nearly a year now, my coblogger Sean has recapped the classic 90s YA book series Animorphs. With his characteristic snark and good humor, Sean’s done a terrific job of examining KA Applegate’s first and best-known work. When Sean told me he planned to cover the Animorphs series, I was excited and optimistic–I’d read the first dozen books or so when I was in middle school myself. But [...] More »

Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home—and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in [...] 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. Today’s post brought to you by the Sean Wills Research Institute For Things That Freak Out Sean Wills. The Exposed is kind [...] More »