Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: blackcondor105 on July 05, 2008, 03:13:02 PM
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i was woundering what order does the andalite , hork bajir chronicals and the visser book go. i never read them yet but before i read them i want to know what order do they go in like what happens first in animorphs history thing.
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The order is Andalite first, Hork Bajir, and Vissser.
However, chronologically they go Hork Bajir, Andalite, and then Visser.
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in number order: andalite, hork-bajir, visser and go right after MM#4 and before ellimist.
in publishing order: andalite, hork-bajir, visser. andalite is...either before or after #13. Hork-bajir is after #22. Visser is after #35.
in chonological order: hork-bajir, andalite, visser, and go right after ellimsit before #1.
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just to be an anal-retentive jerk really quick; techniqucially HBC is after andalite chronicles chronologically cuz it's a story being narrated to Tobias that he relays to us.
okay, I'll go back over here now
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but the andalite chronicles was like a story elfangor was telling us.
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Yep
techniquecially (man I can't spell that word) chronological order puts Andalite Chronicles at overlap with the start of book 1, HBC after book 22, Visser overlapping the end of 35 and Ellimist Chronicles overlapping like, chapter 4 or something of book 54.
And that's the end of that chapter
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actually, I don't think there's any proof that hork-bajir chronicles happened after #22. we only think that because that's when it was published.
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Fair enough; I should have said before 23 instead of after 24, but seeing as it has some important information introduced there (i.e. Toby) that is first mentioned in that standard books in 23, I find it a safe assumption
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well it's definetly before #23. in #23 tobais said he's been to the hork-bajir valley and met toby before. HBC was the only time.
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actually, I don't think there's any proof that hork-bajir chronicles happened after #22. we only think that because that's when it was published.
I think that makes it a fairly safe assumption
Personally, I believe it's important to read the whole series in the correct chronological order (i.e. publishing order).
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not really. TAC was published around #13, but the prologue and epilogue happened back in book 1. TEC was published around book 47, but the prolouge and epilogue happened in book 54. Just because it was published some time, doesn't mean that's when it happened.
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well for TAC I think publishing order is definitely better cuz if you didn't you'd knew Tobias's lineage way too early, it'd be no fun.
Also the point of that is to show what Elfangor was. For 13 books he's this legendary hero, champion of our little team of heroes, then TAC comes in and says "no see, he messed up too, he wasn't a war god, he bad mistakes, learned and got lucky, just like these guys are doing."
Which is why TAC is after 13 on my next reread-normally I do it first.
I don't know where to but TEC, I think the publishing in order would be better, just cuz it really throws off the "this is the very end" feel of the series, plus it kinda seems real obvious who's gonna go first if it's done b/w 53 & 54. Even though I already know :P
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IMO, it's best to read it in the order it was published. Andalite, Hork-Bajir, Visser (after #35), and Ellimist (after MM#4)
http://hirac-delest.issamshahid.com/story.htm#reading_list
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IMO, it's best to read it in the order it was published. Andalite, Hork-Bajir, Visser (after #35), and Ellimist (after MM#4)
http://hirac-delest.issamshahid.com/story.htm#reading_list
Well you definitely want to wait to read Visser until after #35 or it won't make any sense, since it's so closely tied to the events of the main series, even overlapping #35!
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not really. TAC was published around #13, but the prologue and epilogue happened back in book 1. TEC was published around book 47, but the prolouge and epilogue happened in book 54. Just because it was published some time, doesn't mean that's when it happened.
Yeah, but the publishing time is when KA intended for us to find out that informationn
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that still doesn't mean that's when it happened in the book.
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It just makes more sense to read them in publishing order...We learn Elfangor's story of how he created Visser Three and then became Tobias' father after we find out he's Tobias' father in the regular series. It just makes more sense.
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that still doesn't mean that's when it happened in the book.
I'm not saying that it is, I'm saying that's when it should be read
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First time through, yeah, they need to be read in publishing order. But upon re-reading the series, after having already read it, I'm finding chronological order is a lot of fun, cause you already know all the information anyway, so it's not like you're not finding it out when K.A. didn't want you to or anything. But for your first time reading the series, then yeah, I suggest publishing order.
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It just makes more sense to read them in publishing order...We learn Elfangor's story of how he created Visser Three and then became Tobias' father after we find out he's Tobias' father in the regular series. It just makes more sense.
you mean before right? we dont find it out in the reg series til 23, which i like better that way
i agree publishing order is the way to go, i especially like how visser 3's story kinda goes backward, we start with him as all powerful v3, then we see him as subvisser with ambitions of getting an andalite host (TAC), then we see him as a hostless yeerk and his first andalite encounter(HBC). Hes really got a great story. The same is kinda said about the yeerks as a whole, as we go back through their story.
And obviously its great how we get to assume certain things about the characters and then have things changed up in the chronicles, especially TAC and TEC
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Yeah...I did. Hmm...
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The story that's being told in Visser, not the court room stuff, but the story within the story, the flashbacks if you will, where do they take place in relation to the rest of the Chronicles inner stories?
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her flashbacks are shortly after Andalite chronicles, she goes to check out the supposed class 5 species a sub visser met on the Taxxon planet
via Chapman no less
so in between TAC and book 1
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When does Megamorphs 1 take place? Is it between Books 7 and 8?
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yes