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...

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-...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Humans have left the Earth, and dogs rule. Kipper is an oppressed tabby-cat who dreams of a better place, where cats run their own lives. When she discovers a secret that sends her out of this world, Kipper must navigate through the mysterious otter space station and befriend a spaceship full of eccentric otters to find out: is there really a cat paradise?

"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...

When an unexpected wedding invitation arrives, Anno packs her family up for a trip across the stars.There's a lot of fun, touristy things to do on Crossroads Station, including spacewalks, cloud surfing on New Jupiter, and enjoying the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a place that's home to many dozens of different species of alien. But there's also a reckoning to be had with her larger family, who Anno hasn't seen in eight years. She was born and raised in the cult of Xeno-Nativity, and...

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...

"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...