Otters In Space 4: First Moustronaut

by Mary E. Lowd

When two relative giants - a cat and an otter - attend Yvette's gymnastics competition, they've come to recruit the mouse for their new space program. Yvette can hardly refuse and joins an interspecies team (including cats, dogs, octopi, an otter, a raptor, and a squirrel) building an interstellar spaceship using ancient octopus technology.

The political tides turn, and the crew of The Lucky Boomerang must decide - will they sacrifice everything to become the first of their species to travel beyond the boundaries of their solar system? Or will the fanatically religious dogs of the Uplifted States take their spaceship away before it can get off the ground?

237 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 19, 2023

About the author

Mary E. Lowd is a prolific science-fiction and furry writer in Oregon. She's had more than 180 short stories and a half dozen novels published, always with more on the way. Her work has won numerous awards, and she's been nominated for the Ursa Major Awards more than any other individual. She is also the founder and editor of Zooscape. She lives in a crashed spaceship, disguised as a house and hidden behind a rose garden, with a large collection of animals, both real and imaginary, who collectively serve as her muse.

Reviews

[Foxglove Headmate · Rating 5 out of 5]

the scifi tech and how it's integrated into the story and how it interacts with the characters is very engaging. the respect for the differences in strengths in the different species is also nice. the ending was very unexpected and i found it very satisfying, seeing kipper from an outside perspective was also neat. the octopus's way of expressing themselves was very creative and fun to read and the ship was really cool and something you don't see a lot in that combination of aesthetics and genre.