We read books where one of the main characters is disabled and has amnesia and talks about a dog and an alien who contemplates whether it’s morally okay to be involved in the affairs of humanity. 

 

Gen reads Animorphs Book 49: The Diversion by K. A. Applegate and Lisa Harkrader and Book 52: The Sacrifice by K. A. Applegate and Kimberly Morris 

Drew reads Camera Obscura by Lloyd Rose

 

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We read books about young aliens cut off from their past with an uncertain future trying to teach themselves without the benefit of their elders, in which one of the aliens becomes a god at the end. 

 

Gen reads The Ellimist Chronicles K. A. Applegate

Drew reads The Year of Intelligent Tigers by Kate Orman

 

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One of us read a book about fighter jets, a war that escalates into a hot war fighting over a nuclear device orchestrated by an alien force trying to play both sides of the war against each other. One of the characters is grieving the death of his wife. The other one of us did not read about these topics.

 

Gen reads Animorphs Book 45: The Revelation by K. A. Applegate and Ellen Geroux and Book 46: The Deception by K. A. Applegate and Elise Donner 

Drew reads EarthWorld by Jaqueline Rayner

 

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We read depressing books in first person narration about the horrors of war and the nature of humanity with partially mechanical antagonists, 

 

Gen reads Animorphs Book 33: The Illusion and Book 43: The Test by K. A. Applegate and Ellen Geroux 

Drew reads The Turing Test by Paul Leonard

 

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We read books about women taking boats out to sea in a storm, despite warnings, and drowning (or pretending to drown). Two spies infiltrating a foreign planet develop sympathies for their enemy but only one of them chooses to stay. 

 

Gen reads Visser by K. A. Applegate 

Drew reads The Shadows of Avalon by Paul Cornell

 

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We read books where a woman turns into a giant squid, a teenager grows thematically significant wings, and there are talking dogs and elephants. 

 

Gen reads Animorphs Books 19: The Departure by K. A. Applegate and Animorphs Book 27: The Exposed by K. A. Applegateand Laura Battyanyi-Weiss

Drew reads The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad

 

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A generic blonde guy villain who dehumanizes people and a protagonist who makes some seriously fucked up choices. 

(This one is a bit longer than usual, we swear that they won't all be two hours long, but we read four books for this week and we think we deserved the extra space)

    Gen reads Animorphs Books 20: The Discovery, Animorphs Book 21: The Threat, and Animorphs Book 22: The Solution by K. A. Applegate

    Drew reads Unnatural History by Jonathan Blume and Kate Orman

 

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We read books about: centaur aliens, mysterious alien artifacts in the desert, characters escaping from government facilities, and a 90s hippie granola girl protagonist.

    Gen reads Animorphs Book 4: The Message and Animorphs book 14: The Unknown both by K. A. Applegate

    Drew reads Seeing I by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman

 

Link to Seeing I EBook: www.penguin.com.au/books/doctor-who-seeing-i-9781448140145

 

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We read books about: Alien wars, time travel bullshit, an idealistic blond girl who could beat you with a softball bat and her strange alien crush, extradimensional beings from beyond time interfering in a cosmic war, and a space outside of regular dimensions. 

Gen reads The Andalite Chronicles and Animorphs Book 1: The Invasion both by K. A. Applegate

Drew reads Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles

 

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On season 1 of Skip List, Gen and Drew review two pulp science fiction series about alien wars, weird world building, and time travel that were published between 1996 and 2005.

 

Our skip list for this season:

 

Eighth Doctor Adventures

Animorphs

Episode 1

Alien Bodies

Andalite Chronicles

Book 1: The Invasion

Episode 2

Seeing I

Book 4: The Message

Book 14: The Unknown

Episode 3

Unnatural History

Book 20: The Discovery

Book 21: The Threat

Book 22: The Solution

Episode 4

The Blue Angel

Book 19: The DepartureBook 27: The Exposed

Episode 5

The Shadows of Avalon

Visser

Episode 6

The Turing Test

Book 33: The Illusion

Book 43: The Test

Episode 7

Earthworld

Book 45: The Revelation

Book 46: The Deception

Episode 8

The Year of Intelligent Tigers

The Ellimist Chronicles

Episode 9

Camera Obscura

Book 49: The Diversion

Book 52: The Sacrifice

Episode 10

The Tomorrow Windows

Book 53: The Answer

Book 54: The Beginning

Bonus

Doctor Who: The Movie

Animorphs TV Show:

Changes Parts 1-3

 

EDAs PDFs: https://archive.org/download/DoctorWhoEighthDoctorAdventures

 

Animorphs PDFs: https://tinyurl.com/AnimorphsPDFs