sent to 386 people this week, it's .… ------------------------- ANIMORPHS ~ weekly ~ NEWSLETTER ------------------------- ISSUE #132 WEEK OF FEBRUARY 4, 2001 <HI EVERYONE!> Guillermo is back! Yes he is! I wanna thank Nothlit for filling in for me through December and January! Bear with me, I'm trying to learn how to work Yahoo! Groups, it's nifty though, thanks Nothlit! I might not be able to send AW next week, but for February and beyond, I will be here! Who caught Survivor this week? And what about that explosive half-time show for the Super Bowl?! WOW! Yey, I had no school for this past entire week cause I finished my exams early, no homework or tests!! But I do have to return on Tuesday. Well now, read on.... &&&&&&&&& AW FORUM &&&&&&&&& Last week's forum: If you could change one thing about the entire Animorphs series, what would it be? "I wish that there were more Tobias and Ax books" - Reana "I would have had them tell their families a long time ago. There is strength in numbers." - Carly "The one thing of the series I would change would be the realistic- ness of fighting an intergalactic war. I would have more casualites, more attacks, more ... reality. While I realize that, yes, this is science fiction and yes there are aliens in it, logic doesn't exactly become a priority. However, I feel it would still somehow have made a slight difference over the past four years. The ending is getting better - of course it has to right, if it's the end of the series? ;) But maybe it's also getting better because more of the <i>war<i> is being made out the way it would in reality: The Maceavellie ( so I suck with big names) Rule of Life." - Elfy "If I could change anything in the series, I would make animorphs longer." - Mike This week's forum question is: Was the event that happened in #50 the right thing to do? Why ir why not? Send in your forum responses to http://awn.ani-news.com %%%%%%% AW POLL %%%%%%% Last week's poll question was: Is it likely that we humans might one day invent a technology similar to morphing? Even if it's 1,000 years from now? Sure 6 No way 8 This week's poll question is: If the 6 Animorph members (Jake, Rachel Cassie etc, including Ax) were on Survivor, who would be the first to be voted off? Send in your poll responses to aw_newsletter@hotmail.com with "poll" as the subject, or respond online http://awn.ani-news.com ====== NEWS ====== -- OFFICIAL SITE UPDATES The Scholastic Animorphs site has updated with the usual #51 cover and sample chapter, here's the summary: The Yeerks have taken over units of the National Guard with plans to infest all of its officers and soldiers. The plan seems to be to step things up-use the Guard to prepare for an all-out war on Earth. The Animorphs couldn't be less prepared. They're living with the free Hork-Bajir colony, Jake is depressed, and worst of all, the morphing cube is in the hands of the enemy. Marco and the others know they need to take serious action to stop the Yeerk infiltration of the Guard. They decide to approach the governor-but they don't know if she's a controller or not. If she is, they're walking right into enemy hands. If she's not, the Animorphs are finally going public with their secret. And no one knows which situation is worse... And here's the link to see the cover: http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/download/bk51.jpg And the sample chapter, that mentions Melissa Chapman: http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/sample51.htm There are also some un-official summaries for #53 and 54, but I'm not going to post them here just because I don't the last books spoiled, and I don't think you want them spoiled either. Surprise is so much better. -- WILL ANIMORPHS BE THE KIDS CHOICE THIS YEAR? For the third time in a row, Animorphs has once again been nominated for the Best Book Series award in the 14th Annual Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Awards. This is the last time Animorphs will be able to be nominated and win since the series is ending this year, so keep your fingers crossed. Animorphs is up against "Bud, Not Buddy", "Chicken Soup Series", and "Harry Potter Series". Voting starts February 12 and the show will air on April 21. -- LAST EVERWORLD BOOK COVER & SUMMARY RELEASED Everworld #12 Entertain the End, the last in the series of Everworld, will be coming out in April and thanks to Morphz and Rebecca191 we have the cover of the book. Check it out here: http://www.morphz.com/posts/ew12big.jpg Also, BN.com has posted the official mini-summary!: Finally, the answers to all the mysteries, start to fall into place in the last volume of K.A. Applegate's best-selling young adult series. David, April, Christopher, and Jalil will now learn the truth. -- ACCORDING TO K.A. UPDATED Although it's not a good update, the According to K.A. section of the Animorphs site was updated. Nothing new is brought up and K.A. goes a bit overboard on the wackyness, you can read it here: http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/accord.htm -- INTERESTING EVERWORLD NOTE A fan maintains the Official Everworld site? It's true, if you're at the main page and you scoll down to the bottom of the page, you'll see: "This site was co-developed by cobragirl - former Everworld ringmaster and current fan and avid reader." Is Animorphs next? Maybe not, but who knows? +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ON THE BOOK CHARTS +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ On the charts this week: #49 The Diversion is off the charts. #50 The Ultimate comes on at 139, up from 190 last week. <><><><><><><><><><><><> WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK <><><><><><><><><><><><> Animorphs Utopia http://www.geocities.com/axman_182/aniutoM.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLOSING REMARKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks for reading this week's issue! Send your comments, forum, polls and any information to me at aw_newsletter@hotmail.com Thanks again and see 'ya next week! - Guillermo < QUOTE OF THE WEEK > "Aint' it good to be alive?" - Edwin - Alive ********************************************************************** ** Get all the latest news, polls, and forums at the Animorphs Weekly Newsletter's Official site! All that and more only at http://awn.ani-news.com ********************************************************************** ** ANIMORPHS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER #132 is copyright (c) 2001 by Guillermo Larocca (aw_newsletter@hotmail.com) NO NEWS SHOULD BE POSTED ON ANY ANIMORPHS WEB SITE OR NEWSLETTER WITHOUT GIVING ANIMORPHS WEEKLY PROPER CREDIT AND LINKING TO http://awn.ani-news.com