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Fur lost in Pulse nightclub shooting, and thoughts of national tragedies that touch the fandom.

Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was the scene of a national tragedy in the early AM hours of June 12.  News has spread far and wide about this worst mass shooting in US history.  50 or more lives were taken at a gay club, which is especially meaningful to many during Pride month.  You’ll see a sea of rememberances at the celebrations everywhere. Their event happened to be a Latin night, and comments to the Facebook page for Pulse mention that the event was shared by more than gay pe
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Timbuktu: A Novel, by Paul Auster – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Timbuktu; A Novel, by Paul Auster. NYC, Henry Holt and Co., May 1999, hardcover $22.00 (181 pages). It can be argued that Timbuktu is the opposite of an anthropomorphic novella. It is about a dog, Mr. Bones, whose beloved human companion, the pseudonymous Willy B. Christmas, a homeless East Coast “street poet” is dying. Timbuktu does an excellent job of portraying the despairing thoughts of a mostly unanthropomorphized but exa
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Suit Up Saturday – Minnesota’s Furry Club night gives a Q&A for the Furclub Survey.

Furclubbing: “A repeat/regular nightclub event by furries for furries.” It’s a New Thing that’s been spreading since the late 2000’s. This kind of dance party is independent from cons. This builds on the growth of cons, and takes things farther. It’s more ambitious than events that happen once, house parties, or informal meets. Those can stay inner-focused for friends who already know each other. This brings partnership with new kinds of venues, and new supportive interest in the kind of events
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Special Feature, by Charles V DeVet – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Special Feature, by Charles V. DeVet. NYC, Avon Books, June 1975, paperback 95¢ (176 pages) Special Feature is a terrible s-f novel about terrible characters. It is hard to tell which are the more unlikable, the humans or the cat-people. But taken as a noir thriller in which the reader is gradually brought to sympathize with some seriously flawed characters, or as a funky “how many things can you find wrong with this s-f scena
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Zootopia: “A Call For Balance” – guest post by Alex Reynard.

Zootopia’s Blu-ray/DVD release is June 7, 2016. Dogpatch Press welcomes Furry fanfic writer Alex Reynard.  See also Inquisitr.com: “Is Zootopia a modern version of Animal Farm?”   Join the party ZOOTOPIA has been out for a while now.  In that time, I cannot count how many times I’ve seen it called “propaganda”. Left-wing propaganda, right-wing propaganda, commie propaganda, gender propaganda, race propaganda. It’s ridiculous. And it’s unfair to what the movie actually is. I’m gonna ass
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Frameline Film Fest features two furry documentaries – furs invited to a red carpet event.

Wear YOUR best carpet! FURSONAS – Sunday, June 19, 9:15 PM (86 min.)  Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St, San Francisco.  “Through a furry fray of intimate dramas and dilemmas, the fascinating individuals and universal longings of furries—or folks who don anthropomorphic body suits for role-play—come into snuggly view.” FURRIES – Monday, June 20, 9:15 PM (33 min.) Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St, San Francisco. Tickets here for the ONLY IN SAN FRANCISCO shorts program.  “From dancing leather dad
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Mouse Mission, by Prudence Breitrose – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Mouse Mission, by Prudence Breitrose. Illustrated by Stephanie Yue. NYC, Disney•Hyperion, October 2015, hardcover $16.99 (266 pages), Kindle $9.99. Mouse Mission is The Mousenet, Book 3; the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Mousenet and Mousemobile (both 2013). To repeat the events in the first two books, 10/11-year-old Megan Miller learns that the mice of the world are as intelligent as humans, but are too small and
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Zen: Meditations of an Egotistical Duck, by Phicil – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Zen: Meditations d’Un Canard Égoiste (Zen: Meditations of an Egotistical Duck), by Phicil Paris, Éditions Carabas, November 2015; hardcover €16,00 (80 pages). Google’s automatic translator says that “un canard égoiste” is “a selfish duck”, but in this case “egotistical” is a better translation than “selfish”. Jean Plumo sees everything as revolving around himself, but he’s not particularly selfish once the needs and desires of
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Furry Network’s new content policy gets panties in a bunch.

Sorry, I couldn’t resist a flippant headline. I’m laughing with the subjects of the story. Some of the crinkly among us will consider panties and similar undergarments to be literally just something to wear. And who am I to judge? It’s not my place to “change” them. This reminds me of an amusing topic at Reddit’s r/furry community. It asked, if furry fandom had a motto, what would it be? Winner- “Yes, I am into that”. There’s an endearingly permissive spectrum of Things Furries Are Into. At
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Simon Thorn and the Wolf’s Den, by Aimee Carter – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Simon Thorn and the Wolf’s Den, by Aimée Carter NYC, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, February 2016, hardcover $16.99 (307 pages), Kindle $6.99. Besides furry fiction, there is a category of children’s fantasy about human children learning that they can talk with animals, and that the animals have civilizations of their own. The best of these include the Chronicles of Narnia, by C. S. Lewis, in which human children discover a larg
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“Shut Up, You’re Weird Too” from furries around the world – NEWSDUMP (5-27-16)

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.  Canada’s CBC Radio – “‘Fursonas’ unzips the complex world of furry fandom.” Interview with Dominic Rodriguez (Video the Wolf), director of the movie. Criterioncast.com reviews Fursonas.  Joshua Brunsting calls it: “…a tender and nuanced meditation on a community that’s still trying to find itself… a noteworthy achievement for having the skill and will to let the narrative breathe.” Furries Love Zootopia.
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Why “Species Identity Disorder” is absurd, and Boomer The Dog is awesome.

Joke news is fun. The Hard Times is a punk rock version of The Onion. They put out some of the funniest fake news anywhere. “No One of Any Gender Wants To Use Venue Bathroom” Did you hear news controversy about sharing bathrooms with trans people?  Personally I pee on hydrants, so I don’t give a shit about where other dogs pee. On a Furry topic, here’s a news story that reminds me of Poe’s Law (the internet rule that says that parodies of extreme views will be taken as sincere, unless y
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Ursa Major Awards and a furry fandom game-changer – NEWSDUMP (5-24-16)

Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag.  Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.  Ursa Major Awards announced. WE’RE #2! Awooooo!!!  “Best Magazine” went to Heat from Sofawolf Press. Next year, maybe Dogpatch Press can try a shameless award campaign with sexy fursuit pin-up poses. (As fursuiter on staff, it’s not that I don’t have standards… I would enjoy it just as much as anyone who wants to see it.) Congrats also to Furries Among Us, edited by Thurston Howl, a nice success for a ne
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Light: A Tale of the Magical Creatures of Zudukii, by T.S. McNally – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Light: A Tale of the Magical Creatures of Zudukii, by T. S. McNally. Revised First Edition. Syracuse, NY, Bounding Boomer Books, February 2015; trade paperback $9.99 (158 pages), Kindle $4.99. Back in May 2015, I reviewed Light, by T. S. McNally. My review was generally positive, but I did have several complaints: “Light is more or less worth reading, but this is one of those books where you have to grit your teeth and plow t
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Transmission Lost, by Stefan C. Mazzara – Book Review by Fred Patten.

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Transmission Lost, by Stefan C. Mazzara. Seattle, WA, CreateSpace, September 2015, trade paperback $14.50 (unpaged [474 pages]), Kindle $6.99. Transmission Lost is categorized as science fiction, not furry fiction. Its plot is very stereotyped, but one that a furry fan can enjoy. A human spaceman befriends an animal-like member of an alien civilization and brings peace and friendship to both cultures. Jack Squier is a 26-year
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Charity Anthology Wolf Warriors III: Winter Wolves – OPEN FOR SUBMISSION.

Wolves are known for being proud, majestic creatures. Known for their loyalty, courage, and intelligence – but it wasn’t always that way. There was a time people saw wolves as only monsters and creatures to fear, for they hunt in the night, kill livestock, and send eerie howls to the full moon. These fears have almost driven these misunderstood creatures into extinction.  As scientist studied them more, the more public opinion of them began to change – but stereotypes are hard to get rid of. Th
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The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale, by Leona Francombe – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale, by Leona Francombe NYC, W. W. Norton & Co., June 2015, hardcover $22.95 (x + 224 pages), Kindle $11.99. This leisurely novel will tell you more than you want to know about the famous Battle of Waterloo of June 17, 1815. To the rabbits who live there today, it’s the only exciting thing that ever happened there. They never tire of hearing about it, in detail. William, the narrator, is one of tho
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On stage with CHVRCHES and more great times with the San Francisco Bay Area Furries.

Pic: Nicole White/ The Daily Californian. Left to right: @Spottacus, @errowolf, Lauren Mayberry, @Metric_fox. At a recent show by the band CHVRCHES, fursuiters in the audience were invited on stage.  Berkeley’s Daily Californian praised the spontaneity of the show:  Furries, fans unite at CHVRCHES performance at Fox Theatre.   Lauren Mayberry, the band’s frontwoman, told the audience: “If the republicans get into office, this sh!t won’t fly!”  It was all a surprise.  Some of the Bay Area Fur
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The Companions, by Sheri S. Tepper – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Companions, by Sheri S. Tepper. NYC, HarperCollinsPublishers/Eos, September 2003, hardcover $25.95 ([vi +] 452 pages), Kindle $9.99. In the far, far future, the galaxy is being explored and colonized, and Earth is incredibly overpopulated. The Worldkeeper Council government, supported by the humans-only IGI-HFO political majority, declares that all animals (only pet dogs, cats, and small cage birds are left by this time) a
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The Guardian Herd: Landfall, by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Guardian Herd: Landfall, by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez. Illustrated by David McClellan; maps. NYC, HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper, February 2016, hardcover $16.99 ([xvi +] 328 [+ 4] pages), Kindle $9.99. The adventure grows more desperate in this third volume of The Guardian Herd saga. It might be described as a My Little Pony with savage teeth and razor-sharpened hooves in it. The multicolored flying pegasi of Anok are divide
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Neighbors, by Michael H. Payne – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Neighbors, by Michael H. Payne Balboa, CA, “Hey, Your Nose is on Fire” Industries, October 2014, trade paperback $10.00 (212 pages), Kindle $3.00. August Lancer, the narrator, is a young resident of Haven Space, a sanatorium and rehabilitation clinic in Southern California. Dumped there by his father (who sends expense money but never visits), Gus is a loner in a wheelchair, afflicted by a degenerative condition that has paral
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Fursonas documentary out now – one of the top Furry News stories of the year.

Here’s one of those media events where a story catches on and gets a lot of coverage at once.  That used to happen very rarely.  Now it’s happening every month or so in 2016, “The Year of Furry.”  The director, Dominic (Video Wolf) is killing it with interviews and promotion. Newport Beach Film Fest: “A Furry Flick: The Beauty & Complexity of the Furry Fandom Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: ‘Fursonas’ explores Furry fandom and the media Radio podcast – Dominic on The Kevin & Bean Show Th
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Black Angel, by Kyell Gold – Book Review by Fred Patten

Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. Black Angel, by Kyell Gold. Illustrated by Rukis. St. Paul, MN, Sofawolf Press, March 2016, trade paperback $19.95 (vii + 379 pages). Black Angel is the conclusion of Kyell Gold’s Dangerous Spirits trilogy that began with Green Fairy (March 2012) and continued with Red Devil (January 2014). The three novels are a powerful mixture of spiritualism, drugs, and adolescent angst, shifting between centuries and societies. They are a
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Bay Area Furs find out why there should be a Furry award for Best Journalism.

Pic: UltraGor There was a hunt for a missing giraffe… Zarafa is a furry superstar lately.  But he didn’t go looking for notoriety.  It happened one night after a show when his treasured purple giraffe fursuit was stolen from his car.  It led to community-wide support, and miraculous recovery of the suit. Now people recognize him on the street. Credit is due to Neonbunny, the show DJ, for pounding the sidewalk to spread flyers.  How many promoters would do it for one show goer?  Dedication li
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New anthro fiction anthology The Society Pages – OPEN FOR SUBMISSION.

There’s a vast community of writers within the Furry Fandom.  From building community sites like SoFurry, to their own Furry Writers Guild, they come together to explore the anthropomorphic writing arts with novels, comics, and anthologies.  Many anthologies are being made in the fandom, and they’re always looking for new talent.  Keep your ears perked for announcements about anthologies open for submission, and you may find one with a vision that inspires you to get involved. Did you like Zoot
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