Furry! : The Best Anthropomorphic Fiction Ever!

This book contains over 24 of the best 'furry' fiction stories of the past 15ears. It is a winner of Furry Fandoms' Ursus Award. Furry fiction revolvesround sentient animals or characters who have animal aspects, ranging fromenetically engineered creatures to aliens to werewolves. Although related tocience fiction, fantasy, and horror, this branch of speculative fiction has style all its own. This volume, in addition to the wide-variety ofntertaining stories, contains non-fiction material explaining the origin andevelopment of furry fiction. Usually taking the form of humanharacteristics given to animals, anthropomorphics have been with humanityrom the earliest cave painting to our modern marketing icons and sportsascots. In the last several decades, the study of and fandom fornthropomorphics (commonly called the 'furry' fandom) had been recognized asnique, and deserving of attentions. From "Watership Down" to "Redwall",antasy fans have flocked to heroic tales of furry heroes. In Furry!, "furryiction expert" and editor Fred Patten takes readers through some of the