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You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station is a cozy furry space opera novel that’s an indirect prequel to Mary E. Lowd’s Entangled Universe trilogy.
When an unexpected wedding invitation arrives, Anno packs her family up for a trip across the stars. Continue reading “You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station – AVAILABLE NOW!”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
There was nothing for it, Trudith decided. She had to find a way to use this little, cat-paw-sized cell phone, because Alistair needed to know what she’d found out. Right now.
Trudith pulled the borrowed phone out of her pocket. She held it lightly between keratinous black claws, and an idea struck her. She couldn’t operate this phone, but a cat could. Any cat. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 7: Earth”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Trailside was smaller and more cramped than Deep Sky Anchor, that giant outpost of Otterdom in geosynchronous orbit with Earth, anchored to the land of dogs and dog-oppressed cats by the slender thread of the space elevator.
Kipper had taken the space elevator to Deep Sky Anchor, where she met up with Captain Cod and his ragtag Barracuders. Before Trailside, their only stop had been at the disappointingly exclusive cat colony on Mars. So, Trailside was the second-ever otter outpost that Kipper had set paw on. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 6: Trailside”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
“You couldn’t wait?!?” Petra exploded. “This dumb-as-charcoal dog said, oh yeah, let’s go to the press, and you thought that was a good idea?!”
Alistair’s ears were flat and his brow drawn. “Are you finished?” he asked.
“Never listen to a dog.” Petra glared at Trudith. “Now I’m done.” Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 5: Earth”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Kipper stared at the ceiling for an hour. She was so intent, she didn’t notice the swell of current as Trugger, another one of her otter shipmates, swam up to her. He tapped on her shoulder to get her attention, and when Kipper looked around, the river otter signed, “Didn’t Jenny tell you? Even though we’re stopped, we won’t be draining the oxo-agua until Trailside clears us for docking.” Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 4: Trailside”
by Mary E. Lowd
A Deep Sky Anchor Original, July 2023
The Seamstress Robot’s shop was a little hole in the wall in the Merchant’s Quarter of Crossroads Station. The seamstress robot herself looked a lot like a giant mechanical spider — all spindly silver legs, overly jointed and coming to extremely delicate points, capable of grabbing, manipulating, and piercing fabric. Also, generating fabric. The seamstress robot, like an actual spider, could generate silk. And synthetic cotton. And synth wool. And velvet, taffeta, patterned prints, fake leather… just about any material you could imagine could be generated, strand by strand, from the tip of her 3D printer leg. Continue reading “The Seamstress Robot and the Insect Bride”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1, return to the previous chapter, or skip ahead.
Trudith waited in the outer office of the campaign headquarters. She expected that when Alistair finished his conversation with the Election Office, he would come out and tell her the plan, but it didn’t work that way. Instead, Alistair slinked out, his tail dragging almost on the floor. He was already wearing his jacket as if ready to leave, and he looked completely dispirited. Trudith knew better than to ask, “What’s the plan?” but, she did ask, “How’d the request for a recount go?” Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 3: Earth”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1 or skip ahead to the next chapter.
Although it only took Trudith’s message seconds to reach the Deep Sky Anchor station in Earth orbit and would take another ten minutes to cross the space between there and the Jolly Barracuda, Kipper wouldn’t receive it for two weeks. The Jolly Barracuda flew incommunicado, her flight plans unlogged. Captain Cod felt it was more piratical that way. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 2: The Asteroid Belt”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space 2: Jupiter, Deadly. If you’d prefer to read in e-book or paperback form, learn more here. Or if you want, jump back to book one or skip ahead to the next chapter.
Trudith watched the orange cats nervously. Although she was larger than them and undeniably stronger, Trudith saw Alistair — a skinny, ginger tabby — as her alpha dog, and Alistair’s sister Petra was a complete wildcard. Petra wreaked havoc on any sane sense of hierarchy that Trudith could work out. Yesterday, Petra took orders like the rest of them, but, now, when Alistair needed their support the most, Petra had turned on him. Continue reading “Otters In Space 2 – Chapter 1: Earth”
by Mary E. Lowd
An excerpt from Otters In Space: The Search for Cat Haven. If you’d prefer, you can start with Chapter 1 or return to the previous chapter.
Trugger was glad to hear upon Kipper’s return that he didn’t have to say goodbye. He gave Kipper a big bear hug. He’d given her hugs before, but they’d all been in an oxo-agua atmosphere which simply isn’t the same. So, this was Kipper’s first time really being engulfed by the soft but incredibly dense pelt of an otter. The warmth was there under oxo-agua, but none of the fuzziness, and fuzzy just doesn’t feel the same when wet.
“I knew you were a space pirate at heart,” Trugger told her. Continue reading “Otters In Space – Chapter 17: Kipper Chooses Her Home”