Fifteen years after the scarabs destroyed Fathomscape Station, their home world has finally been found.Janice's youngest daughter, Kalithee, is the only Dor'ecki maggot in known space — gentle, artistic, and raised on stories about the beautiful civilization of her lost people. But everyone else who has ever crossed paths with the Dor'ecki remembers only the scarabs: metal-winged, bulletproof, and the reason half of Janice's family is dead.Now warships are ...

Meet Lieutenant Natalie Vonn. She's the chief security officer on the starship Initiative and a very good dog, but that doesn't stop things from going wrong.Join her on two exciting, danger-filled missions! First, explore an alien jungle filled with savage gerbils and ruled by an ancient, arcane world-computer in “The Arsenal of Obsolescence.”Then wrestle with the nature of identity itself in “Crystal Fusion.” Whi...

Deep space, nine lives… Or maybe nine-hundred?When a calico cat with a computer chip in her head—full of lifetimes worth of memories—sets out to uncover the mysteries of her distant past, she finds herself on a space station in a recently war-torn star system. Will her best friend from one of her previous lives as a dog still accept her? Can she make new friends with the local bird-like aliens, and how does her own past entangle with the history of a strange shape-...

An angry cat who discovers the techno-mystical ability to raise mice from the dead...A starving kitten who discovers a secret hidden in the San Francisco bay...A witch's cat, a scientist's cat, and a cat who recognizes no owner...In this collection, follow the adventures of the beloved tabby cat Shreddy as he faces off with zombies, ghosts, gryphons, foolhardy dogs, and all sorts of household appliances.Then meet a series of cats whose stories will ta...

What do you do when an all-powerful being decides you're the most interesting cat in the universe?Captain Pierre Jacques has faced down hostile aliens, navigated impossible dilemmas, and maintained the respect of every officer aboard the starship Initiative. But nothing in the Sphynx cat's career prepared him for Questor — a Cheshire cat with godlike powers, an insatiable appetite for mischief, and an inexplicable fixation on making Jacques his new best friend....

A bird raised by reptiles. An officer who doesn't want to belong. A ship that won't let her stay invisible.Sharp-tongued, watchful, and always ready for a fight, Ensign Ko Marin is the first and only Avioran officer in the Tri-Galactic Union. Hatched in a cold Reptassan cave, far from the warmth of her own kind, Ko has spent her whole life feeling like she owes a debt she can never repay. Now she's been reassigned to the starship Initiative, where an annoyingly per...

"What am I?" ... "You are an AI program."In a future where robots decorate cakes, paint murals, design their own bodies, and ponder what it means to have children, one woman's workshop becomes the epicenter of mechanical evolution. Meet Maradia, a brilliant but socially awkward roboticist whose creations constantly surprise her by growing beyond their programming in unexpected—and deeply human—ways.This collection of 24 interconnected stories spans...

"I'd like a story," the Unicorn says. He's been blowing on his hot chocolate to cool it. He stretches his snowy neck, leaning his nose down to taste the dark liquid."You always want a story," the Dragon snarls. The Unicorn shies away from him, but he's not really scared. The Unicorn and Dragon are the best of friends. My best friends.In this collection of 44 enchanting and thought-provoking tales, Mary E. Lowd masterfully blends whimsy and...

See through the eyes of animals, discover their secrets, and join their adventures, in this unforgettable collection of 19 stories!Follow the family of an otter inventor, discover a disappearing-reappearing city of squirrels, and watch a mad mouse scientist swap minds with an owl. Find out how the unlikely friendships turn out between a fox and a coop full of chickens, a rabbit and a carniv...

Unexpectedly thrown to the far side of the universe, can a cat and a squirrel convince their warring crews to work together long enough to survive the voyage home?When Janessa Carroway finally gets her long-overdue promotion to captain, it comes with unfortunate strings attached. She's sent on a suicide mission with a barebones crew to commit a war crime. Why, it's almost a relief for the Norwegian Forest cat captain when everything goes completely wrong, ...

At the Western Spiral Arm Planetary Institute of Technology, the best scientists from around the galaxy push at the bleeding edge of technology. Sometimes their experiments get away from them... Sometimes they run into conflicts with each other... Sometimes they're drawn out into the glittering galaxy around them.Welcome to Wespirtech!This collection includes the following stories:Breathing the Air at WespirtechSlug TimeEinray and the Biolo...

Zooscape is the preeminent e-zine for fantastic furry fiction. Here the animals can talk, magic flows, and the stars are in reach. Furry fiction is a rapidly growing genre, under the same speculative fiction umbrella as science-fiction and fantasy.This anthology comprises Zooscape issues 0-4, including 24 fantastic stories from 24 fantastic authors.