ANIMORPHS #41 |
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SUMMARY
Jake is just a normal kid. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals, and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. But as unbelievable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. One morning Jake wakes up, and he's twenty-five years old.
Okay. Maybe it's a nightmare. Or maybe Jake's just lost it for a while and misplaced a few years. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. It's ruled by the Yeerks. Jake has to find out if the other Animorphs and Ax are still around. Still somehow fighting. Or if he's really on his own...
Released: April 2000
Pages: 143
Cover Art by David B. MattinglyFront Cover (Hi-Res)
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TRIVIA
- Speculation: The mysteriously voiced higher being, who is apparently pulling the strings behind Jake's test in this book, remains unnamed here. However, many have speculated that it's none other than The One, who makes a surprising appearance as the new and final nemesis for the Animorphs in #54: The Beginning, in the last chapter of the book.
- This new future seems to have a striking similarity to the same awful future that the Ellimist showed the Animorphs in #7: The Stranger.
- ANIBASE: This book marks the start of a brand new order in the way the books are narrated. The new order gives Ax and Tobias their own places rather than alternating books as they have been since the beginning of the series -- so, the order used to be Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, Jake, Rachel, Ax, Cassie, Marco (whew!) and is now the simpler Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, Ax. No one's quite sure why Tobias and Ax were short shifted earlier in the series, though we've heard that the editors weren't sure that Tobias and Ax would be as popular as the other characters. Boy, were they ever mistaken!
- ANIBASE: Orson Watch: Through Jake's window you can see a rather futuristic billboard for cat food featuring cameo cat extraordinaire, Orson!
NEW PLOT ADDITIONS
CHARACTERS
ANIBASE: In the future, all of the Animorphs except for Rachel and Tobias are made into Controllers. Jake's Yeerk is known as Essak 2041275, though now that he exists in this strange future, Essak is not in Jake's head. Cassie's Yeerk is named Niss -- only Niss is working with Cassie to take down the Yeerks. Also in the future, free humans are so scarce that they have to live in hiding -- on of these humans is a young boy named Justice. All of the other free kids are named similarly.
MORPHS
Jake None. Rachel None. Cassie None. Marco None. Tobias None. Ax None. Visser Three None.
ALIENS
Orff
The Orff are the "police" in the future Jake has been brought to. They are vaguely humanoid in shape, with three legs and an exceedingly long neck. They have perfectly clear skin that reveals all of their internal organs, and one huge, internally lit eye -- an eye whose pupil doesn't stay fixed in the center, like ours, but circles around the perimeter of the iris.
TERMS
EF
The Evolutionist Front. This group is made of insurrectionist rebel Yeerks who hate the way their people have enslaved species and would rather create artificial symbiotic hosts.
- Check the Alien-English Dictionary for more detailed terms and descriptions.
RELATED LINKS
K.A. Q&A Archives
Reading List and Anibase Download
Alien-English DictionarySubmit Trivia or your most Memorable Quotes!
CREDITS
A big credit to Jeff Sampson for helping build and write the Anibase, which provided much of the inside information towards the series.
Thanks to NeoX and Slayer XY for scanning the inside cover!
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