Pom Poko – Japanese badgers fighting development
[Originally posted May 21, 2006] While I really don’t intend to make these pages a collection of animated film reviews, nonetheless animation is one of the important elements of the furry arts. Those...
View ArticleBreaking the Ice – Furry in a dystopia
[Originally posted September 17, 2006] So… summer is over and it’s time to get busy again. I’d like to give a very strong recommendation to Breaking the Ice: Stories from New Tibet, the anthology...
View ArticleAlbert of Adelaide – Platypus, wombat, dingos and roos
I haven’t seen a furry story set in Australia for many years, so this one certainly piqued my interest as soon as I found it. Albert of Adelaide is a full scale adventure novel in the manner of the...
View ArticleThe Good Dog – a choice between good and free?
McKinley is a malamute who lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado with a boy named Jack. There is no question but what McKinley is a very good dog: obedient, orderly, attentive, and loyal. Then Lupin...
View ArticleThe Island of Dr. Moreau – Curious abominations
H. G. Wells published The Island of Doctor Moreau in 1896, and though it isn’t as well known as The War of the Worlds it has been in print almost continuously since its first appearance. This brief...
View ArticleThe Pride of Chanur – Space trader lions and lizards
C. J. Cherryh is a versatile and powerful science fiction writer with many different races and worlds to her credit. However, the species most likely to interest the furry fan is almost certainly the...
View ArticleRedwall – Of Mice and Moles
Ah, Mossflower! I’m filled with yearning to return to the Summer of the Late Rose. Furry readers who are not familiar with the books of the late English author, Brian Jacques, would do well to put at...
View ArticleNew Coyote – Trickster science fiction
I would describe Michael Bergey’s 2005 book New Coyote as a must read for science fiction and furry fans alike. The Plains Indians and many of the southwestern tribes as well had an archetypal legend...
View ArticleCommon and Precious – Cold and dark
New Tibet is a colony world, a frigid land of permafrost and snow, far from the centers of galactic civilization. The economy is officially based on mining, and the government, such as it is, consists...
View ArticleNurk – Quirky, funny, endearing shrews
Though Harcourt blurbs it as a “first novel,” most of us will probably know that artist and author Ursula Vernon had already published several books, including multiple volumes of her comic/graphic...
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