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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
I have the Robotech books in storage. McKinney did a pretty good job of serializing the cartoon series, harmonizing the three parts and then wrote few couple more to neatly tie everything together.
If one is not familiar with the cartoon series, Robotech was an early attempt by Harmony Gold to bring anime into America; taking a well-known series from Japan (initially, this was the original Macross), and rescripting and voicing with American actors. They then took two unrelated animes for the second and third seasons, and loosely tied them together. through a unifying theme.
As I said, McKinney did well bringing the three series together and the books are good, fast reads; I'd classify it as juvenile science fiction. The only down-side is that there are like 21 books.
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Yes, I am aware of the history of those books--and it's good that you've explained it for the thread's author--but I thought they were worth bringing up, anyway. While aimed at a younger audience in theory, they definitely have elements that are a bit beyond "juvenile" considering the approach Jack McKinney brought to it. Jack McKinney was made up of two experienced scifi authors, Brian Daley and James Luceno. I think they helped round out the source material a great deal with their diverse personal backgrounds; though, as I understand it, the writing process was a rushed affair, so it's definitely not without its flaws and shortcomings. (Some of the later books in particular have some moments that are off the tone of the rest.) Still, I find it one of the more comprehensive scifi series, and one of the most "fun/relatable" to read.
That said, the
Yukikaze books I recommended are very much a grown-up, thought-provoking evolution of the
Robotech books in tone and topic.