But here it is, 3 of 4 of the Bruce Coville Teacher Alien saga! When we last left off, Bully Duncan got smart and then Peter showed up along with Broxholm to wrap him up in a voyage to space to show Earth is worth saving. I wanted to get to it last week but got delayed. When I started reading more last year, my goal was to pare down my collection □ I have two plastic bags of books from sales now. I may read other books in the series, and definitely plan to read more work from this author in the future. Some cool ideas are introduced in here as well, like addiction to devices (this was written in 91, so a bit forward thinking here). You meet sentient crystals, a machine that can synthesize anything, and a host of other cool things. I’m usually forgiving about all of that, and was in this case as well. But if an adult reads the book, they may see most of it as cliche. Filled with the usual sci-fi tropes-weird aliens for the sake of weird aliens, emphasis on the relative insignificance of man-but as I have said before of Goodebumps, when you’re writing juvenile or young adult fiction, you have the luxury of introducing kids to these tropes before they realize they are dated.
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