10 episodes

Gen and Drew review two pulp science fiction series about alien wars, weird world building, and time travel, published between 1996 and 2005.

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Gen and Drew review two pulp science fiction series about alien wars, weird world building, and time travel, published between 1996 and 2005.

    S1E09 Camera Obscura vs The Diversion

    S1E09 Camera Obscura vs The Diversion

    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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    • 1 hr 52 min
    S1E08 The Year of Intelligent Tigers vs The Ellimist Chronicles

    S1E08 The Year of Intelligent Tigers vs The Ellimist Chronicles

    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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    • 1 hr 46 min
    S1E07 EarthWorld vs The Revelation

    S1E07 EarthWorld vs The Revelation

    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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    • 1 hr 24 min
    S1E06 The Turing Test vs The Test

    S1E06 The Turing Test vs The Test

    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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    • 1 hr 39 min
    S1E05 The Shadows of Avalon vs Visser

    S1E05 The Shadows of Avalon vs Visser

    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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    • 1 hr 33 min
    S1E04 The Blue Angel vs The Departure

    S1E04 The Blue Angel vs The Departure

    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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    • 1 hr 38 min

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