Exploring New Places

Mary E. Lowd is a science-fiction and furry writer. She's had more than 130 short stories published, and Nexus Nine is her sixth novel. Her previous novels include the Otters In Space trilogy, In a Dog's World, and The Snake's Song: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel. Her fiction has won an Ursa Major Award and two Cóyotl Awards. She's the founder of the furry e-zine Zooscape. Mary lives in a crashed spaceship disguised as a house, hidden in a fairy's garden in Oregon. Learn more at marylowd.com.

There's Always Another HorizonPeople travel for all sorts of reasons. Some seek knowledge, others want to escape. An explorer might want to know what lies beyond the seemingly endless desert, but most people just want to get out a little and meet the neighbors. That's a much longer trip when they live in the next galaxy.Exploring New Places is an anthology of 19 short stories about anthropomorphic animals venturing into unfamiliar territory, and you can join them. Whether they are a rabbit in a spaceship searching for their creator, bats sailing into the wind, a gorilla student wandering off in a museum, or two-tailed squirrels confronting interstellar explorers; these animals will take you to parts unknown and new worlds of imagination.Journey with them, and light a candle in a far away place.ContentsTo Drive the Cold Winter Away by Michael H. PayneIn Search of the Creators by Alan LoewenThe Rocky Spires of Planet 227 by Mary E. LowdDefiant by Harwich WolcottWhy Indeed by Pepper HumeCome to Todor! by Fred PattenYou Are Our Lifeboat by Dan Leinir Turthra JensenThe Animal Game by Vixyy FoxAshland's Fury by MikasiWolfLegacy by M. R. AnglinUmbra's Legion: Shamblers of Woe by Adam BakerUmbra's Legion: Where Pride Planted by Geoff GaltBeyond Acacia Ridge by Amy FontaineOne Day in Hanoi by Thomas "Faux" SteeleWelcome, Furries by Cathy SmithBack Then by Frank LeRenardTortoise Who by Mary E. LowdI Am the Jaguar by CairynThe Promise of New Heffe by Kary M. Jomb