"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 32 - The Separation" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

I know. It sounds like fiction. It sounds like something you'd hear from
the crazy lady pushing the shopping cart full of cans down the street. I
wish I had a more believable story to tell but all I can do is tell the
truth.

2 The truth is that Homo sapiens, humans, me and you, have been targeted
by an alien species called Yeerks.

They're a parasitic species. Not predators looking to kill, kill, kill,
hovering over our cities and blowing up the Statue of Liberty or
whatever. The Yeerks don't want us dead. They don't want our land or our
natural resources. They don't want to barbecue our livers.

What they want is us.

They're nothing but gray slugs in their natural state. Helpless. You
could put on your Timber-lands and stomp a couple thousand of them on
the sidewalk.

Except that the Yeerks aren't content to live as slugs. They infest
healthy host bodies, they enter the brain, they wrap themselves around
the brain and sink into the little crevices. They control the brain.
Utterly.

Once they have you, once they've made you a Controller, you don't focus
your own eyes, or move your own fingers, or draw your own breath. You
are powerless. Like being totally paralyzed, only your eyes are still
seeing and your mouth is laughing and your hands are reaching out to
choke the life from someone you love. . . .

They're here. They're not E.T. They're not cute. And we, my friends and
I, are the only people

3 who know, and just about all that stands between the Yeerks and total
world conquest.

Wow. Depressing, huh?

Fortunately, we are not powerless. The Yeerks aren't the only aliens
with an interest in Earth. There are the Andalites as well. Night and
day. Evil and not evil.

The Andalites may not all be saints, but one of them, a warrior named
Elfangor, gave us the Andalite technology that allows us to morph. To
acquire the DNA of any animal we touch and then to become that animal.

Morphing: power wrapped up in a nightmare.

And yet, there are times when morphing has certain advantages beyond