Melodrama is unavoidable, but in the shadow of Bayhem and its blue-collar, can-do approach to the cold, hard enormity of human extinction, a more restrained approach was always going to be under-appreciated.
Both films were big hits in the summer of 1998, but inarguably, it was director Michael Bay’s film that struck the jackpot with its preposterous blockbuster story of oil drillers learning to be astronauts in time to save the world.
Released in May and July respectively, Deep Impact and Armageddon both centre on the United States’ reaction to potential planet-killing comets that are set to crash into Earth. (Paramount/Touchstone)īy most measures, Deep Impact is only America’s second-favourite asteroid movie of 1998, but it’s more than just a couple of months that set it apart from Armageddon. In this final installment of the genre-bending Story Thieves series, Owen and Bethany will be forced to risk everything to defeat Nobody and save multiple realities.1998 was the battle of duelling asteroid movies Deep Impact and Armageddon. Fictional Bethany is thrilled to be training with her father as his new sidekick, Twilight Girl-until she realizes that the fictional reality will fade away completely without the nonfictional world to hold it together. Then Owen gets trapped in a dark, dystopian reality five years in the future, where nothing is needed more desperately than the power to imagine. Owen-and every other nonfictional person-have lost their imaginations, so they can’t picture their lives any differently. Bethany has been split in two, with her fictional and nonfictional selves living in the separate realms.
The villain they have come to know as Nobody has ripped asunder the fictional and nonfictional worlds, destroying their connection. Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in this fifth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves-which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
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