This story was extremely fantastical, embedded with words that have little to no value meaning or vary completely from what they are assumed to me.
Personally, this story felt like "James and the Giant Peach" meets "Alice in Wonderland" on the moon. All of these stories deal with a child, most of the time orphaned/left/unsupervised who encounters a different world which they make their own. James has his mutant bugs, Alice has Wonderland, Tyche has the Moon People.
Even some of the antagonists within the story are extremely similar, especially between Tyche and James. In Tyche's situation, her parents are taken by space sharks, she encounters (what seems to be) mini robot "ants", and the world has a giant metal sandworm. Now, compare that to James. His parents are eaten by a giant metal Rhino from the sky and he has to deal with various creatures like the shark/submarine/garbage disposal thing.
Is there something to say about stories which include the situation of kids being left to fend for themselves against these fantastical creatures?
I never thought of this parallel while I was reading this story but I think it fits very well. Both of the parents are eaten by metal weird things and both deal with similar obstacles. I also think there is an element about kids fending for themselves against the unknown.
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