Exploring New Places - Softcover

Lowd, Mary E; Fontaine, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614504210 ISBN 13: 9781614504214

Publisher: Furplanet Productions, 2018

Synopsis

There's Always Another Horizon

People travel for all sorts of reasons. Some seek knowledge, others want to escape. An explorer might want to know what lies beyond the seemingly endless desert, but most people just want to get out a little and meet the neighbors. That’s a much longer trip when they live in the next galaxy.

Exploring New Places is an anthology of 19 short stories about anthropomorphic animals venturing into unfamiliar territory, and you can join them. Whether they are a rabbit in a spaceship searching for their creator, bats sailing into the wind, a gorilla student wandering off in a museum, or two-tailed squirrels confronting interstellar explorers; these animals will take you to parts unknown and new worlds of imagination.

 

Journey with them, and light a candle in a far away place.

 

Contents

To Drive the Cold Winter Away by Michael H. Payne
In Search of the Creators by Alan Loewen
The Rocky Spires of Planet 227 by Mary E. Lowd
Defiant by Harwich Wolcott
Why Indeed by Pepper Hume
Come to Todor! by Fred Patten
You Are Our Lifeboat by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
The Animal Game by Vixyy Fox
Ashland’s Fury by MikasiWolf
Legacy by M. R. Anglin
Umbra’s Legion: Shamblers of Woe by Adam Baker
Umbra’s Legion: Where Pride Planted by Geoff Galt
Beyond Acacia Ridge by Amy Fontaine
One Day in Hanoi by Thomas “Faux” Steele
Welcome, Furries by Cathy Smith
Back Then by Frank LeRenard
Tortoise Who by Mary E. Lowd
I Am the Jaguar by Cairyn
The Promise of New Heffe by Kary M. Jomb

About this title

About the Author

Fred Patten (1940-current) joined the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society in 1960 while in college, and has been an active s-f & fantasy fan ever since. He began writing for and publishing fanzines in 1961 (see http://www.zinewiki.com/Salamander), and has written over a thousand reviews of anthropomorphic literature since 1962, irregularly for s-f fanzines in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; for Yarf! from 1990 to 2003, for Claw & Quill in 2004-2005, for Anthro from 2005 to 2008, for Renard's Menagerie in 2008, for Flayrah from 2011 to 2014, and for Dogpatch Press since 2014. He has written three non-fiction books and edited fourteen anthologies of furry fiction. He founded the Ursa Major Awards and has been on its administrative Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Association since 2001. He is a member of the Furry Writers' Guild and the Furry Hall of Fame. He co-founded Japanese anime fandom in 1977, and was awarded the Comic-Con's Inkpot Award in 1980 for helping to introduce anime to America. He wrote a weekly column on animation, Funny Animals and More, for Jerry Beck's Cartoon Research from 2013 to 2017. A stroke in 2005 has left him hospitalized, from which he carries on his fanac.

Amy Fontaine has studied hyenas, wolves, and other creatures as a wildlife biologist since earning her bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University in 2015. Her work has taken her to beautiful places, including Yellowstone National Park, the Sierra Nevada, the Gila National Forest, and the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Exploring new places is one of her favorite things to do. Amy's experiences with animals in the wilderness influence much of her fiction and poetry. Since she loves to daydream, fantasy and science fiction are her preferred genres. She enjoys imagining what the world could be and hopes to inspire a sense of wonder in her readers. In addition to writing, traveling, and conducting research on wild animals, Amy likes to play guitar and draw. Her fiction has been nominated for two Leo Literary Awards and one Cóyotl Award. You can find more of her published work at https://amyfontaine.wordpress.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Furplanet Productions
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1614504210
• ISBN 13: 9781614504214
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• Editor: Patten Fred