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...

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.” While studying a geode asteroi...

When Annie's best friend ditches her, she has to go on an adventure of her own. In a cardboard spaceship, she flies to the most dangerous planet she's discovered. In this collection, meet aliens, fairies, and talking animals; travel to faraway worlds and magical realms; and discover the point where science-fiction and fantasy blend.From the award-winning author of The Necromouser and Other Magical Cats, read this selection of twelve delightful tales, including two original novellas...

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...

Spies! Jet packs! And a water-phobic feline surrounded by otters! IN SPACE!On her way back to Earth, Kipper the tabby cat finds her plans derailed when hostile vessels attack friendly otter ships orbiting Jupiter. The Jolly Barracuda flies to the rescue, dragging the hapless tabby even farther from home and embroiling her deep in the beginnings of an interplanetary war.Meanwhile, political turmoil on Earth forces Trudith, the dog goon turned bodyguard, into a serious moral ...

Intrigue, adventure, and octopi await!On the eve of war between Earth and Jupiter, one brave tabby cat embarks on a journey that will rock the foundation of her world as she travels between the depths of the sea and the depths of space. While Kipper seeks an audience with the octopus oligarchy, her sister Petra struggles against tyrannies and conspiracies among the dog and cat government of the Uplifted States. Meanwhile, across the solar system, the otter Jenny leads her team of p...

Katasha Blake is a cat surrounded by cats. She loves her littermates, but she's tired of having them in every part of her life. She wants to go to Isleywood College, a prestigious school where most of the students are dogs.Then Katasha meets Howell, a handsome upperclassman and a dog. What will her family think? Is Howell even interested in a high school cat? All Katasha knows is, she can't wait to leave for college.

A healer's oath knows no species.Doctor Waverly Keller is the chief medical officer of the starship Initiative—a red setter with a soft heart, steady paws, and an unshakable commitment to saving lives. Even lives the rest of the crew might prefer she didn't save.When a crashed Archidopteran vessel yields a single, badly injured survivor in "I, Hive," Dr. Keller faces her most challenging patient yet: a frightened insect drone from a hostile species, alone a...

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...

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 w...