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Hello,

   I reread all of the Animorphs book this summer and I must say that this series is great. I took a gap from my first reading of Animorphs, back when I was in elementary school, and finished the whole series from start to end this June. I loved every minute of it and the ending was great imo (though it had some flaws and could have been longer).

I was just curious as to what the chances of getting a continuance from 54 is? Perhaps knowing what happened to Jake and the others? I am going to say a very slim to almost no chance but was wondering if anyone else here possessed any new information? Thanks.

(Rereading the whole series knowing all the things about the end made me sad in some parts of the books where the kids were so happy.)

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2010, 11:00:05 PM »
i don't think there will be. Animorphs 2.0 will probably just a complete rewrite. A new ending is a lot more possible though, you know, something to surprise old fans. :)
I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To th

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2010, 03:07:43 AM »
Are you sure about that? KA had shown interest in continuing the series, and IIRC she said if this new rewritten Animorphs sell well, Scholastic might consider a continuation.
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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2010, 03:43:34 AM »
im not sure, hence, the "think".
I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To th

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2010, 04:05:02 AM »
If she would continue the series it would be amazing, though I wonder is there any audience for new books? Ofcourse the old fans, but that might not be enough.
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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2010, 05:02:06 AM »
That's why they're going to re-release the first few books next year, I guess to get new readers.

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2010, 05:08:23 PM »
Despite her interest, I just don't see how an exact, direct continuation could be done, outside of Cassie training a new group back on Earth to combat the new threat from the end of the series. Now maybe an alternate new ending, where things ended a bit differently - that'd be cool to see.

Still, the series as is is chock full of twists and turns and surprises that we never saw coming, so who am I to judge where KA could take a sequel. :P
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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2010, 10:07:00 PM »
Despite her interest, I just don't see how an exact, direct continuation could be done, outside of Cassie training a new group back on Earth to combat the new threat from the end of the series. Now maybe an alternate new ending, where things ended a bit differently - that'd be cool to see.

Still, the series as is is chock full of twists and turns and surprises that we never saw coming, so who am I to judge where KA could take a sequel. :P

THIS I want to see. And also fix the KASUs like the one in the first book, where Jake thought speaks outside morphs. And more fillers! :D
I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To th

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2010, 02:01:57 AM »
I want to see the series appear less, well, episodic. after a while it starts to sound like "what's the visser gonna do THIS week?" kinda deal. He lost his menace after a while, only to find it again near the end. The arc in the last few books was awesome. Something more that like. I know it's a children's series, but still. :)

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2010, 04:29:06 PM »
Well, some of them did have to be episodic, 'Visser plan of the week' type deals just by the way they were envisioned, but I agree. More mini-arcs like the David trilogy would have helped too I think.

Oh, and can we just make the entire oatmeal book non-canon? Please? ;)
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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2010, 10:06:29 PM »
I dont know. I"m kind of ok with the idea that some obscure, mundane thing was poisonous to the Yeerks. They are of a completely different biological makeup than we are. Things affect them differently. The idea that some chemical contained in the oatmeal hurt them was a good one. If we went to some alien planet, something entirely harmless to them may end up killing us, because our bodies dont know how to handle it.
That's the way i always read it.

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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2010, 10:10:59 PM »
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I dont know. I"m kind of ok with the idea that some obscure, mundane thing was poisonous to the Yeerks. They are of a completely different biological makeup than we are. Things affect them differently. The idea that some chemical contained in the oatmeal hurt them was a good one. If we went to some alien planet, something entirely harmless to them may end up killing us, because our bodies dont know how to handle it.
That's the way i always read it.
I agree. In War of the Worlds, the most obscure, mundane things on Earth - bacteria - destroyed what all of Earth's military couldn't, simply because the Martians weren't used to bacteria and had no resistance to them. I would put the oatmeal-kills-Yeerks idea into the same category.
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Re: What are the chances we will get a continuance of some sort after Book #54?
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2010, 03:46:16 PM »
Well yeah, it's not the idea itself I don't like, it's that it was...well, oatmeal. Of all things, oatmeal? And if I remember right, it wasn't even deadly to them at first, it was like crack to them right? They got addicted and got too used to it, and then it was deadly. The whole thing just reeked of an anti-drug message to me, and while I do think it's a good message, it was just too preachy for my tastes. Maybe that's just me though. :P

Here's another idea, I just had it while reading/replying to the Cassie thread - maybe the re-write could kind of spin into it's own thing later on in, if it gets that far? It'd still keep to the same central plot, but have things work out differently, small stuff at first, that makes the plot more streamlined and believable in some parts that jumped the shark, so that ultimately we get an entirely different ending. I'm all for that, cuz we'd still have the original books for the old version of the story.
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