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Animorphs

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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Varyk to c/animorphs
 

The oatmeal debacle!

This is a pretty good one to read through again. It's fast-paced, has a lot of pretty big and exciting events, and seriously examines some pretty dark moral arguments and behaviors in war.

I remember almost all of this book, this one is pretty great and pretty dark. I didn't remember Arnold Schwarzenegger though.

TitleThe debate about whether they should give the yeerks a highly addictive substance that causes the yeerks to go insane is already serious, but then they decide to go ahead with the plan to poison the yerks with the toxic oatmeal.

Child soldiers using biological warfare in a war they feel they must continue is pretty rough.

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