In typical Animorphs fashion, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. The homeworld of the Ketran, to be precise.but are they just hateful, violent invaders? Wells, and like the Martians, they invade an unsuspecting world with a devastating attack. We never learn too much about the Capasin, except for a vivid description of cephalopoidal organisms with scowling, hooked beaks and gigantic, bulging eyeballs, similar in many respects to the Martians described by H.G. The thought of intelligent extraterrestrials hampered by a universal phobia of the indoors seems ridiculous, but who knows how many human behaviors might seem equally laughable to the eyes of some other species. The result is some of the most impractical, ridiculous spacefaring technology you could ever imagine, with Ketran crews clinging to the exteriors of 'inside-out' starships and only an invisible force field for protection. This lifestyle renders the entire species hopelessly claustrophobic, to the point that one minute in an enclosed space feels like a fate worse than death. For millions of years, they've lived in tremendous numbers on the outside of floating, crystalline structures held aloft and steered in part by their collective wings. The glimpses we're given into the psychology of these creatures is especially novel. In a bit of foreshadowing, their culture focuses heavily on electronic games in which they manipulate the evolutionary course of simulated planets, basically playing a much more advanced, hyper-realistic version of Spore. Ketrans are never described in complete detail, but we know that they have four wings, four eyes and six limbs, maybe bird-like, maybe insect-like. We learn the origin of the relatively benevolent Ellimist in his own stand-alone novel, and that he was once a very, very different creature called a Ketran.

We talked in our last article about the Ellimist, one of two virtually god-like entities who have spent eons using countless civilized planets as pawns in their own bitter rivalry. We're going to begin with what would ultimately be one of the most important races in the series, so, spoiler alerts I guess. This article wouldn't be possible if he hadn't been nice enough to let me use illustrations he did about a million years ago, and the complete Animorphs bestiary is nothing compared to the scope of his original creatures designs, speculative paleobiology and more! If you've read a lot of Bogleech already, you may remember his illustrations of 'real' alien encounters, and he's done quite a few more of those, to boot!

Existential horror, body horror, cosmic horror, Animorphs has it all.and there's still more! We've already seen that the series offers some positively killer ideas for life on other planets, and we're going to take a look at even more of them here!īefore we begin though, please pay a visit to Eric Kowalick's website. Previously, we talked about the many brands of horror offered by K.A.

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