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Glendale, CA, Disney Editions, August 2017, hardcover $40.00 (176 pages). Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons, by David A. Before it was renamed Brighton’s Destiny the aliens who wrote the inscrutable language that filled its screens and who still enslaved the rest of his people.” (p. He’d been a slave to the aliens who’d built the ship. Ordol could read the writing, at least, a little of it. They had disabled the homing signal to hide it from the original owners, but it was stolen nonetheless. The sight of the alien language made it impossible for Jenny to forget: this ship was stolen. Sharp angular letters clustered erratically into words – or so Jenny assumed – and scrolled senselessly across the computer screens arranged beneath the central viewscreen. The ship’s computer displayed the results in a language Jenny couldn’t yet read. “As they flew toward Io, Ordol’s tentacles continued to work in Jenny’s peripheral vision, running scans and taking readings. Otters in Space III begins with Jenny, an otter, and Ordol, the leader of the octopi (that’s them on Idess’ cover), flying back from the Persian cat colony of New Persia on Europa in a stolen spaceship, to the Jolly Barracuda hidden in Jupiter’s Red Spot: (I hope that Lowd plans to eventually republish the three books of Otters in Space as a single novel.)

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Otters in Space II ends with the cats and dogs of Earth uniting to oppose the dinosaurs, while Kipper commands a spaceship full of rescued cat refugees returning to Earth. They find the colonies under attack by aliens that turn out to be raptor dinosaurs who have already conquered an octopus space civilization that the cats, dogs, and otters didn’t know about. Meanwhile, Kipper has gone into space and is aboard the Jolly Barracuda, an otter merchant spaceship on a supply run to the Jovian colonies. Alastair and Petra must decide whether to challenge the vote and risk starting a cat-vs.-dog civil war. Alastair has just run for Senator of California, and despite cat voters outnumbering the dogs four to one, the dogs who control the results announce the dog nominee has won in a landslide. The protagonist is Kipper Brighton, the tabby cat sister of Petra and Alastair Brighton. The dogs and cats run Earth, and the otters run everything in space.

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The series is set in the far future, after humans have uplifted cats, dogs, and otters (and some others), then disappeared. Unless you have a really good memory, you had better reread the first two books before starting this. There’s not even a brief What Has Gone Before. Otters in Space III follows right after Otters in Space II, published four years ago. Lowdĭallas, TX, FurPlanet Productions, July 2017, trade paperback, $9.95 (227 pages), Kindle $6.99. Otters in Space III: Octopus Ascending, by Mary E. Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.

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