Exploring New Places, edited by Fred Patten, is launching at Anthrocon 2018 in Pittsburgh, PA over the July 4^th holiday weekend (July 5-8).  The book can be pre-ordered from FurPlanet Productions.  It will be for sale on the FurPlanet online catalogue afterwards.

Exploring New Places is an all-original anthology of 19 short stories and novelettes of anthropomorphic animals venturing into unfamiliar places, in their own city, on their own world, in space, or in a different dimension.  This anthology is designed to appeal to fans of science-fiction and fantasy.

Whether by the power of music to “send you right out of this world”, or a rabbit spaceship captain searching for the creators of her species; a galactic police agent called to a new planet to solve murders, or alien furries who enter a human university; a gorilla student wandering off in a museum, or two-tailed squirrels confronting interstellar explorers; these are stories for your imagination and entertainment.

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 Joshua Carpman
• 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

Price:  $19.95.  401 pages.  Wraparound cover by Demicoeur.   ISBN 978-1-61450-421-4.