Fred Patten’s new anthology Cats and More Cats; Feline Fantasy Fiction is launching at Further Confusion 2016 in San Jose over the January 14-18 weekend.

Cats and More Cats is a reprint anthology containing 14 short stories and novelettes of feline fantasy fiction (“the best of the best”) from 1989 to the present, plus a new essay, and an extensive bibliography of cat fantasy books. Price:  $19.95.  261 pages. Wraparound cover by Donryu.

The book can be pre-ordered online from FurPlanet Productions, or purchased from the publisher’s online store after the con.

Table of Contents

• Trouble, by P. M. Griffin (from Catfantastic; Nine Lives and Fifteen Tales, 1989)
• Bomber and the Bismarck, by Clare Bell (from Catfantastic II, 1991)
• … But a Glove, by John E. Johnston III (from Catfantastic III, 1994)
• Born Again, by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (from Catfantastic IV, 1996)
• Masters and Students, by Bryan Derksen (from the Transformation Stories Contests website, 1997)
• Trixie, by Lawrence Watt-Evans (from Catfantastic V, 1999)
• Destiny, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (from Creature Fantastic, 2001)
• Three-Inch Trouble, by Andre Norton (from A Constellation of Cats, 2001)
• Defender of the Small, by Jody Lynn Nye (from Turn the Other Chick, 2004)
• The Luck of the Dauntless, by James M. Ward (from Furry Fantastic, 2006)
• After Tony’s Fall, by Jean Rabe (from Catopolis, 2008)
• Magtwilla and the Mouse, by Mary E. Lowd (from Allasso volume 2, 2012)
• A Spoiled Rotten Cat Lives Here, by Dusty Rainbolt (from The Mystical Cat, 2013)
• The Emerald Mage, by Renee Carter Hall (from Hero’s Best Friend, 2014)
• Furry Fandom and Cats, by Fred Patten (original, 2016)
• A Bibliography for Bast, by Fred Patten (original, 2016)

Happy 75th birthday to Fred Patten, the pioneering anthropomorphic fiction scholar, critic, and anthologist!

In honor of the occasion FurPlanet Productions in Dallas, Fred’s primary publisher, has all six of his FurPlanet titles on sale this weekend.

From December 11-13, the six $19.95 trade paperbacks will be available at $15.00 each, 75% of the regular price.

Individually they are:

• The Ursa Major Awards Anthology

• What Happens Next (anthology)

• Five Fortunes (anthology)

• Anthropomorphic Aliens (anthology)

• The Furry Future (anthology)

• An Anthropomorphic Century (anthology)

Four of these books also are available in electronic editions of from Bad Dog Books, FurPlanet’s ebook imprint. They will be on sale, too. Usually $9.95, you can buy them for $7.50 this weekend — The Ursa Major Awards Anthology, What Happens Next, Five Fortunes, and The Furry Future.

Fred Patten’s sf anthology An Anthropomorphic Century will be published on September 24 and released at the RainFurrest 2015 convention, in Seattle on September 24-27. The book can be ordered from FurPlanet.

Patten has selected 20 short stories and novelettes published from 1909 to 2008.

• Tobermory, by Saki (1909).
• Dr. Lu-mie, by Clifton B. Kruse (1934).
• The Blue Giraffe, by L. Sprague de Camp (1939).
• Barney, by Will Stanton (1951).
• Expendable, by Philip K. Dick (1953).
• The Conspirators, by James White (1954).
• Sic Transit…?  A Shaggy Hairless-Dog Story, by Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop (1976).
• Crow’s Curse, by Michael H. Payne (1991).
• Nine Lives to Live, by Sharyn McCrumb (1992).
• Vole, by John Gregory Betancourt (1994).
• Choice Cuts, by Edd Vick (1997).
• Transmutational Transcontinental, by Phil Geusz (1997).
• Daylight Fading, by Chris Hoekstra (2000) – illustrated by Dark Natasha.
• The Good Sport, by Bill Kieffer (2001).
• The Dog Said Bow-Wow, by Michael Swanwick (2001).
• Cat ‘n’ Mouse, by Steven Millhauser (2004).
• Pig Paradise, by Scott Bradfield (2004).
• Sergeant Chip, by Bradley Denton (2004).
• Gordon, the Self-Made Cat, by Peter S. Beagle (2005).
• The Wishing Tree, by Renee Carter Hall (2008).

The price is $19.95.  321 pages.  Cover by Mark Brill.