During Anthrocon 2018, FurPlanet released its new anthology, Exploring New Places, that contains my short story, In Search of the Creators. Coupled with 18 other short stories, the theme deals with anthropomorphic animals venturing into unknown places.
In Search of the Creators centers on Illatha, an anthropomorphic rabbit, and her crew searching the galaxy for the strange beings that uplifted her ancestors millennia ago before mysteriously disappearing. Exploring another solar system, they discover a planet that shows signs of habitation. Could it be, after fruitless years of searching, Illatha and her crew have finally found the answers to their genesis?
Exploring New Places is not yet available from Amazon, but can be ordered directly from FurPlanet.
Story Excerpt:
Illatha and her crew stayed in silent orbit waiting for orders from Homeworld. A subspace squirt took one week out and back and assuming a few days for the leaders of Homeworld to debate what they should do, a response was expected soon.
Illatha stared at the dots of light that speckled the night side of the planet, each one declaring the presence of a city. Sensors had shown the lights were not electrical in nature, but the glow from fires that appeared to be from natural gas.
One of the lights dimmed slowly and then brightened again. Illatha’s gaze focused on it.
It blinked again, twice in succession in a slow, but steady pattern.
Illatha’s furred brow furrowed in curiosity and concentration.
The light blinked again, three times in succession.
Immediately, the captain’s four-fingered hands flashed over the control board to put her ship in a stationary orbit.
Fascinated, she watched as it blinked five times and then went back and blinked once. And then twice, then three times and then five, cycling back to repeat the pattern of prime numbers in a base ten system.
Fear welled up in Illatha’s heart. They had been spotted.
Contact had been made.
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