I really wonder what I would have thought of the Animorphs books if I’d read them when came out, or better yet, a few years earlier even. Would I have loved them? I was a pretty opinionated, judgmental kid… but I think I might have loved them so much it would have changed me.
Would I have written different books myself if I’d read Animorphs when I was a kid? I think that’s really possible, and it makes me wonder what those books would’ve been.
There’s not a lot of things I’ve encountered as an adult that I think could’ve changed child-me this much.
I think it’s entirely possible that if I’d read Animorphs as a kid, by the time I got to writing Otters In Space, it might’ve been about transforming into otters rather than uplift.
I’m still confident I’d have written Otters In Space, but it might’ve been a very different book.
Maybe when I’ve finished writing my sci-fi horror trilogy, I’ll see if I can write that alternate universe variant of Otters In Space anyway. It’d need a different title at this point, but I’m sure I could work something out.