Cats In Space and Other Places
Brian Fawcett, editor
Baen
Fiction, Anthology/Sci-Fi
Themes: Aliens, Altered DNA, Classics, Felines, Mind Powers, Robots, Space Stories
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Description
Cats have been with us since the dawn of civilization... would they not follow us to the distant stars? This anthology cat-related classic science fiction stories.
Review
I guess I just suck at picking good anthologies. Most of these stories have no point, and I questioned why a couple of them were in a feline-based collection. My favorite was the novelette The Man Who Would Be Kzin by Greg Bear and S. M. Stirling, which was odd because the one other book of the Man-Kzin War series which I've read wasn't exactly my cup of cocoa (I despise tea.) I also liked The Game of Rat and Dragon, by Cordwainer Smith, but I'd already read it in another anthology, so this one doesn't get any credit for introducing me to it. On a personal-griping note, the "classic" Space-Time for Springers by Fritz Leiber was once more reprinted. I've never liked it, and putting it in just about every cat story collection ever printed won't make me like it any more. In any event, if this is the best cats can do in sci-fi circles, I think they'd be better off staying here on Earth.