The Katurran Odyssey: Difference between revisions

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The story is set in a world populated entirely by [[Intellectual Animal|Intellectual Animals]]. Katook is a young Ring-Tailed Lemur who ventures to a forbidden area of his once-idyllic island home that is now in the grip of a famine. Learning a dark and terrible secret, and forever singled out by the deity of his people, he is banished by the tribal elders and ventures across the sea in search of other lemurs. Instead, he finds a wide variety of monkey tribes, each with differing opinions of Katook's destiny. He finds fierce, frightening creatures. And he finds Quigga, a conceited Quagga who gradually accepts the little primate first as a traveling companion and finally as an equal. Katook eventually receives a message from his god, returns to save his tribe, and good times are had by all.

The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[~~Cliche~~ Storm|perfect storm]] of [[The ~~Heros~~ Journey]] Tropes and [[Animal Tropes]]. It's still cool to look at.

The artwork in the novel is ''unbelievable''. The story... is a [[Cliché Storm|perfect storm]] of [[The Hero's Journey]] Tropes and [[Animal Tropes]]. It's still cool to look at.

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* [[Distracted By the Shiny]] - I mean, damn those illustrations are amazing...

* [[Doing in The Wizard]] - Actually forms part of the denoument.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Monkeys]] - Writ large.

* [[Everything's Better With Monkeys]] - Writ large.

* [[Furry Confusion]] - Od Ashud actually has this as a cultural trait. If you are any species other than a Golden Monkey, you're treated as a pet. Or worse.

* [[George Lucas]]

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* [[Most Writers Are Human]] - Or, rather, Most Writers Are Primates.

* [[Shown Their Work]] - Aside from the legendary army of fantastic monsters, there is only one fictional animal in the whole of the book. You'll just have to take her word for it.

* [[Small Name Big Ego]] - Quigga is not only [[Attention Whore|quite]] [[Pride|vain]], but fancies himself an exemplary scout despite having no sense of direction.

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]] - Quigga is not only [[Attention Whore|quite]] [[Pride|vain]], but fancies himself an exemplary scout despite having no sense of direction.

* [[Spirit World]]

* [[Uh Oh Eyes]] - The book subverts the [[Eyes of Gold]] variety, as gold is a perfectly normal eye color for lemurs. It's Katook's ''blue'' eyes that [[Creepy Blue Eyes|make him a freak]].

* [[Uh-Oh Eyes]] - The book subverts the [[Eyes of Gold]] variety, as gold is a perfectly normal eye color for lemurs. It's Katook's ''blue'' eyes that [[Creepy Blue Eyes|make him a freak]].

* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]

* [[Walking the Earth]]