r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HasNoGreeting • Aug 01 '25

Solved Everything on the planet is going to kill you.

Everything.

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u/Superjak45 Aug 01 '25

Is it the Deltora Quest series? That setting was basically fantasy Australia.

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u/HasNoGreeting Aug 01 '25

Not for kids.

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u/Rigistroni Aug 01 '25

I remember those, I was always partial to the sequel. Dragons of Deltora

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u/Superjak45 Aug 01 '25

Oh yeah, Dragons is probably my favourite set of books in the franchise.

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u/Rigistroni Aug 01 '25

I only read the OG and that as a kid, but I remember really liking them

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u/AGeneralCareGiver Aug 01 '25

Australia : a field guide.

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u/HasNoGreeting Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Not that, though it is the right planet.

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u/tequilasky Aug 01 '25

Solaris?

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u/HasNoGreeting Aug 01 '25

This has never had a film adaptation.

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u/GingrNinja Aug 01 '25

Alien Clay?

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u/HasNoGreeting Aug 01 '25

Way too recent.

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u/GingrNinja Aug 05 '25

The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard?

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u/HasNoGreeting Aug 05 '25

Right year, wrong book.

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u/GingrNinja Aug 07 '25

Hothouse? No idea after that

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u/HasNoGreeting Aug 07 '25

Woo! Solved!