Furry Tales

<p> Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them from <I>Aesop's Fables</I> to <I>Reynard the Fox</I> to <I>Alice in Wonderland</I>. The genre really took off following the explosion of furry fandom in the 21st century with talking animals featuring in everything from science fiction to fantasy to LGBTQ coming-out stories.</p><p> In his lifetime Fred Patten (1940-2018)--one of the founders of furry fandom and a scholar of anthropomorphic animal literature--authored hundreds of book reviews that comprise a comprehensive critical survey of the genre. This selected compilation provides an overview from 1784 through the 2010s covering such popular novels as <I>Watership Down</I> and <I>Redwall</I> along with forgotten gems like <I>The Stray Lamb</I> and <I>Where the Blue Begins</I> and science fiction works like <I>Sundiver</I> and <I>Decision at Doona</I>.</p>