I am using "anthro" here to mean heavily anthropomophic animals here, ones with human like physical traits, advanced speech capabilites, and upright stance, clothes, things along those lines. Basically, people with fur (or scales). Werewolves and their ilk are listed under transformation.
This book is out of print. 3 in 1 anthology containing "The Warriors" by Larry Niven, "Iron" by Poul Anderson, and "Cathouse" by Dean Ing.
From the back cover:
Larry Niven's known space is aflame with war!
Once upon a time, in the very earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an
unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin- home of
the fiercest warriors in Known Space. This was a fatal mistake for the Kzinti,
of course; they learned the hard way that the reason humanity had decided to
study war no more was that humans were so very, very good at it.
Ant thus began THE MAN-KZIN WARS. Now, several centuries later, the Kzinti are
about to get yet another lesson in why it pays to be polite to those hairless
monkeys from planet earth.
Cover blurb:
Pioneer ballonist and silent film star…
Actor, rogue, and lover…
Betrayer and betrayed-
Perian de Chirolo
Renaissance man in an alternate reality, he plays his many roles- in the beds
of princesses and whores, in the council chambers of the elite and in the teeming
streets of Malacia, the Eternal City, a city blessed- or cursed- never to know
change. Yet in this timeless world of balck magicains, saintly priests and avaricious
astrologers, a wind of change is rising, and the Malacians, a people who claim
descent from the noble dinosaur, must face it, or face their own extinction…
REBELLION IS BREWING IN THE INTERSTELLAR EMPIRE!
For more generations than anyone can count, the Lionmen of Nide-an alien race
of honor-bound leonine warriors-have served the galactic empire. Ki Lawwnum,
Lionman and com-mander of the Imperial Guard, has watched the cruelty and wickedness
of Emperor Ozenscebo XVII turn to madness. Ki's heart has grown increasingly
weary from his duties, but he is still bound to the royal family by his sacred
honor.
Rebellion stirs inside the imperial palace and out among the provinces as well.
Every day it grows, promising to strike at the very foundation of the empire
... and threatening to endanger the life of the Princess Natanha, Ki s especial
charge since the moment of her birth.
Honor, duty, moral responsibility, personal belief, and a life-time of unswerving
loyalty... Ki Lawwnum, Lianman, must decide if his ultimate duty is to the emperor-or
to the empire.
This book is out of print.
Back cover synopsis
Jim Bentley's plans for the evening were simplistic: a movie and the graveyard
shifts at the 7-11.
That was before he stumbled into another world.
Evolution has taken a very different direction on this parallel Earth, but some
things are consistent. Jim Bentley has fallen straight from his ordinary life
into the most constant thing of all: war. Even as he struggles to learn the
ways of a strange culture, to make a place for himself in what seems likely
to be his home for the rest of his life, the tides of revolution are rising
around him.
Jim Bentley has a part to play in this war-for his coming has been foretold
by True Dreamers. His feet are already set on a path that leads to the heart
of the crises. Like it or not, he is vital to the war efforts of the Architect
of Sleep…
The adventures of a woodchuck and his friends Sammy Jay, Happy Jack Squirrel, Billy Possum, and other inhabitants of the forest surrounding Farmer Brown's land. This is part of an ENORMOUS series of books set in the same world.
This volume collects together three shorter novels in one book "Spacial Delivery", "Spacepaw", and "The Law-Twister Shorty".
Back cover synopsis:
Humans or Hemnoids: an unbearable choice!
Planet Dilbia is a crucial locations for both humans and their adversaries,
the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a
human presence there is of the utmost importance, which may be a problem, since
the bearlike Dilbians stand some nine feet tall, and have a high regard for
physical prowess. They're not impressed by humans technology either. A real
man, er, bear doesn't need machines to do his work for him.
But Dilbians are impressed by sharp thinking, and some have expressed
a grudging admiration for the logical (and usually sneaky) mental manuevers
that the human "shorties" have used to get themselves out of desperate jams.
Just maybe the old human craftiness will win over the Dilbians to the human
side. If not, we lose a nexus, and the Dilbians will learn just how unbearable
Hemnoids can be…
This book is out of print, but is available in a compendium volume "The Right to Arm Bears"
From the back cover:
John Tardy has been drafted by Helping Hand, and packed off to Dilbia to locate
and rescue the onterplanetary contact agency's first envoy, Ty Lamorc. Dilbia,
and its unusually intelligent native race, are being wooed by two major galactic
powers…and Earth is determined to win their respect and allegiance.
But the Dilbians don't seem to be cooperating. In fact, they seem to treat John
and his mission as some kind of joke. But there's nothing funny about the consequences
if the lovely Ty can't be saved, and it's up to John to get the job done. First
he has to survive a cross-country trek with a particuarly fun loving Dilbian…
This book is out of print.
back cover synopsis:
For years the land of Ar has lived in peace Here the catlike mrem rule by
duty and honor. Now, from out of the east, their legendary enemies have risen
again, sweeping towards Ar to begin their conquest anew.
Suspected because of his dark and magical abilities, Talwe is outcast by his
village and sentenced to service in the White Dancer's guard. When he rescues
the beautiful Princess Sruss, heir to the throne of Ar, he finds himself caught
in the center of court intrigue. For as murderous traitors seek to usurp the
throne, the anicent Eastern Lords invade with their arsenal of evil sorcery.
Only Talwe, Sruss, and the mysterious Council of Three command the magic necessary
to defend the vital border post of Cragsclaw from the power of the Eastern Lords-
a deadly force more potent than any the mrem have ever seen.
Back cover synopsis:
It was where beasts walked and talked as men, armed with sword and dagger. And
it was there Clothahump, turtle and wizard, stretched his powers of sorcery,
seeking a source to the unknown evil that threatened his land, seeking a helper
from another dimension, another universe.
And so Jonathan Thomas Meriweather- grad student and rock guitarist -found himself
plucked from his cannabis-filled campus room in L.A. and whisked into a world
of disarming beauty and savage violence. Here Jon-Tom, Mudge the otter, the
flame-haired Talea and others would form a motley fellowship with the wizard.
Their mission: to travel where no warm-blooded being has been and destroy the
strange new Force emanating from the dreaded Greendowns.
Now the peace-loving student must become a solider and crusader, fighting with
sword and song. For strumming his otherwordly duar, he is the maker of magic,
his music conjuring configurations, transforming Jon Meriweather into the Spellsinger.
This book is out of print. Part of the Spellsinger series.
Back cover synopsis:
Invasion of the plated folk!
The elders of Polastrindu watched in horror as Clothahump, wizard and turtle,
spun visions of the coming invasion. Finally the Plated Folk had a magic potent
enough to penetrate Zaryt's Teeth and the warmlands, igniting a devastating
was between the species. The wizard and his earthly helper, Jonathan Thomas
Meriweather, grad student and rock guitarist, must undertake the voyage into
enemy territory in seach of allies against the evil hordes from beyond.
So Jon-Tom, Clothahump, Mudge the Otter, flame haired Talea and their motley
crew set sail on a suicide mission down the trecherous river that winds throughout
the subterranean lair of Massawrath, Mother of Nightmares, across Helldrink
through a tunnel of cold flame to the center of earth. It is a perilous journey
few have attempted, and none have ever survived…
Now the peace-loving student must become a solider and crusader, fighting with
sword and song. For strumming his otherwordly duar,he is the maker of magic,
his music conjuring configurations, transforming Jon Meriweather into the Spellsinger.
Part of the Spellsinger series
From the back cover:
There goes the neighborhood!
Nobody wants to be around when a freak of supernature called a Perambulator
enters the world, bringing with it some really weird shifts in the fabric of
existence…like suddenly turning Jon-Tom into a giant blue crab, or Mudge the
Otter into a nasty disease…
But the mad Perambulator is there to stay, unless the wizard Clothahump can
muster all his power and boot it into the next dimension. So, despite the bumblings
of Sorbl the drunken owl and the fitful runes of a koala amateur wizard, Jon-Tom,
Mudge, and Clothahump make their way ever depper into the realms were chaos
perambulates…to find a deadly foe that only the combined forces of Illogic can
hope to defeat…
This book is out of print. Part of the Spellsinger series.
From the back cover:
We're talking 'bout bad, BAD, BAD, BAD VIBRATIONS!
Spellsinger Jon-Tom is not in search of the Lost Chord; he's found it:
living notes adrift from some extradimensional chorus line, fugitive from an
otherwordly unfinished symphony. And the errant air wants Jon-Tom to follow
it- right off a clef, into deadly peril.
For a minor key adventure turns major as Jon-Tom, his otter pal Mudge, and the
schizo scherzo rescue a gaggle of spoiled princesses, battle the compulsions
of bizarre bazaar, wage war on a guerrila gorilla, are sucked into a mocking
maelstrom- and are trapped by an evil alien band who plans the ultimate musical
rip-off, plunging the universe into the sounds of silence. Now, unless Jon-Tom's
magic can conquer the airwaves, the hills will be alive with the sounds of an
evil wizard who writes the songs that make the whole world…scream!
Part of the Spellsinger series.
From the back cover:
There's no place like home…
It was a pretty good life for a spellsinger from L.A. He'd battled demons, fought
deadly Plated Folk, even met a socialist dragon and survived. Now Jon-Tom was
quite happy to settle into domestic bliis with the fiery Talea, study magic,
and practice spellsinging on his duar. But the magic instrument is broken when
Jon-Tom protects the wizard Clothahump from thieves and must set out across
the Glittergeist Sea to find the one person who can fix it. With the irrepressible
Mudge the Otter as a traveling companion, only the unexpected can happen. But
cannibal muskrats, ogres, and a fierce pirate king parrot seem ordinary indeed
when Jon-Tom finds a way back to Earth- and he must choose which world is home.
Part of the Spellsinger series.
From the back cover:
Call him spellmaster B
Much to Clothahump the Wizard's distress, ex-hippie Jon-Tom and otherwordly
Talea's son Buncan wants to be a questing hero, but not a spellsinger.
Instead, he forms a band with Mudge's kids, otters Nocter and Squill, one that
creates a wild, unpredictable magic - based on rap!
Then an anteater arrives with rumors about a dangerous legend. Soon the young
rappers, aided by a drunk rhino, are off on an odyssey to fortress where evil
sorcerors threaten the world. And where only the unknown power of Buncan's beat
can stop the hordes of hideous hybrids.
Front cover blurb: "Four young warriors-against the once and future masters
of the earth!"
From the back cover:
Dragons aren't extinct. But mankind may soon be…
One hundred years have passed since the collapse f human civilization. Gigantic
reptilian aliens prowl Earth's surface, while dwindling tribes of humans struggle
to survive in a world transformed. But a handful of determined men and women
resist extermination. With few weapons and fewer allies, they dare to challenge
the ruling dragons- for possession of the future itself!
A time for war.
A time for survival.
A time for dragons
From a master of imaginative storytelling comes an epic tale of the world
as it might have been, a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, and their
descendents clashed with the clan of humans in a tragic war for survival.
It is the tale of Kerrick, a young hunter who grows to manhood among the dinosaurs,
escaping at last to rejoin his own kind. His knowledge of their strange customs
makes him the humans' leader, the dinosaurs most feared enemy.
OREGON. WHERE THE END OF THE HUMAN RACE BEGINS.
A team of government operatives is sent to invade the site of Dr. Hellstrom's
secret Project 40. What they find are specially bred scientists with huge heads
and stunted legs who develop weapons that hum with deadly insect venom ...chemically
neutered workers capable of poisoning the world ... hidden tunnels immune to
atomic fission ...hormones for ecstatic sensual pleasures ...and the vats-where
everyone finally ends to nourish future generations of Hellstrom's horrifying
hive.
This book is out of print. This collects together two novellas "Cathouse" from Man-Kzin Wars and its sequal "Briar Patch" from Man-Kzin Wars II.
From the back cover:
Caroll Locklear was up to his ears in Kzinti. He hadn't planned it that way;
what sane human would want to be trapped cheek by furry jowl with a bunch of
homicidal bearcats? But when he was taken prisoner, somehow the subject of Locklear's
likes and dislikes never came up, and now he finds himself stranded on a planet
of prehistoric Kzinti. To survive he must find common cause, if
not with the males then with the females of the antique species…
In the Summer of the Golden Plain, the cunning fox Slagar the Cruel, and his evil henchmen sneak into Redwall Abbey to kidnap the Woodland children- including Mattimeo, son of the great warrior mouse, Matthias. Now Matthias and a handful of brave followers must abandon their home to the mercy of General Ironbeak's invading ravens in order to rescue their stolen little ones. But on the road to a dread kingdom and certain slavery, an unexpected hero will be born- and the captive mouse-child Mattimeo will prove himself worthy at last to wield the sword of his illustrious father.
This book is out of print.
Rats beware- the Imperium's on your tail!
Brion Bayard, once of our own timeline and now Imperium Agent extraordinaire,
had been on some pretty dangerous missions before- but never had he encountered
so noxious a foe as the invading legions of giant plague ridden rats who walked
like men, spreading disease across the multiple universes of the Imperium. Unless
Bayard can travel to the original world of the long tailed invaders and stop
the plague at its source, the Earth of the Imperium and all the other Earths
in all the universes will fall before the verminous hordes from a timeline that
should never have existed in the first place…
Book II of the Doona series. (not necessary to read them in order, but nice)
From the back cover:
Over twenty-five years ago, the first humans came to the beautiful unspoiled
planet called Doona. Their initial survey has ignored on important fact: they
were not alone. The alien, cat-like Hrrubans had settled there first. This conflict
led to the Decision at Doona - a twenty-five year experiment in cohabitation…
Now the twenty-five-year contract is up for renewal. The wild planet they tamed,
the home they fought for, and the delicate alliance they share could all be
destroyed forever…
From the back cover:
The destiny of Doona
After the first human contact with the Siwannese, that entire race committed
mass suicide.
So the Terran government made a law - no further contact would be allowed with
sentient creatures anywhere in the galaxy.
Therefore Doona could be colonized only is an official survey established that
the planet was both habitable and unihabited.
But Spacedep had made a mistake- Doona was inhabited.
Now the colonists' choice was limited. Leave Doona and return to the teeming
he;; of an overpopulated Terra. Or kill the catlike Hrrubans.
Or learn, for the first time in history, how to coexist with an alien race…
Content warning: this contains non consensual sex between human women and animals
Front cover blurb: "Enslaved by blood lust, they sacrifice their victims to
a nameless god"
From the back cover:
Beware the sign of the ram
They came to the shore of New Guinea, a team of scientists eager to discover
if there was any truth to the rumors that a "missing link" in the chain of human
development actually existed on mysterious Satyr Island.
They found an incredible tribe, half man-half beast, whose bodies bore the spiral
brand marking them as followers of an ancient cult of lust and blood.
They died one by one, powerless to save their women from the creatures hideous
rituals.
Would anyone survive to tell the truth to a horror-stricken world?
From the back cover:
"To call The Blood Jaguar a talking animal fable for adults would be
both true and misleading, like calling Moby Dick a whaling adventure novel.
"These talking animals are variously hip, intellectually subtle, cynical, mystical,
and portrayed with real charac-terological depth. Bobcat, the main catnip-head
protagonist, may be superficially reminiscent of Fritz the Cat, but emerges
as a true hero in the archetypal sense. The novel has plenty of humorous moments,
but these waters run
"The Blood Jaguar is the sort of thing for which the word `sui generis'
was invented. Believe me, I have never read anything like it before, and neither
have you." -NORMAN SPINRAD
GOLDEN ELVES FORETOLD RELKIN'S FATE
There is a field in Arneis, a garden of flowers. There Relkin will stand, when
all else has failed and the dark forces have triumphed And on his shoulders
will rest the destiny of the world....A shadow of war hung over the peacetul
land of the ;Argonath as The Masters prepared to unleash hideous new monstrosities
from their dread fortress The Great witches of Argonath unable to pierce the
magical barriers of the enemy did not know when or where the evil blow might
fall. Only one thing was certain the Dragon Legions would be crucial to the
Empire's survival Yet for Dragonboy Relkin and the dragon Bazil Broketail surviving
long. enough to fight was the problem at hand-especially after an irregular
rescue mission saw Relkin upon a murder charge-and the fate of his own world
' seemed far beyond his control....
The bearlike aliens of Fenrille had long been allies of the fiercely independent human clans. Together Men and Fein ruled the wooded highlands of the odd planet's single continent. And together they grew rich, for only the people of the highlands could harvest the drug that kept men forever young. Then the masters of a distant Earth sent a starfleet with a force of brutal Space Marines to seize the planet. But they weren't prepared for the colonists' stiff resistance -and no one had warned them of the aliens' very special defenses.
front cover blurb: "She was a rabbit moreau, a tough street kid who was about to be caught on the wrong side of the information-peddling wars…
Back cover synopsis:
On the mean streets of 21st century San Francisco-
A moreau of rabbit stock, Angelica Lopez, Angel to her friends, was the last
survivor of a Cleveland street gang, and a sometime ally of private eye Nohar
Rajasthan. A tough street fighter in search of a haven of peace, she'd come
to "tolerant" San Francisco only to find that even here the old fashioned kinds
of humans weren't too keen on moreaus, no matter what kind of animal ancestors
the moreaus were descended from.
But still, she'd found herself a place, she'd found herself a job-though being
waitress in a greasy spoon wasn't Angel's dream career- and she thought she'd
found safety.
Then Byron the fix came into her life, dragging her into the deadly underground
of information peddling, and into a series of confrontations that could blow
not just San Francisco but the whole world wide open…
WANTED-KILLER WHALE (Orcinus orca)- will pay $100,000 for a killer whale
in good condition.
Jamie Tidd and his father have actually done it. They're trapped a killer whale
in a cove, and Jamie's already imagining how he'll spend his share of the money
the marine park if offering to pay.
But the press and environmental groups are all for saving the whale, and want
the Tidds to release it. Even Jamie's secret love, Angie, demands that Jamie
free "the hostage." If he doesn't, she will!
All Jamie wants to do is the right thing. But what's that?
This book is out of print.
The famous sleuth of mousedom! Basil of baker street continues his brilliant detective career as he solves three difficult cases, one right after the other: "The case of the Counterfeit Cheese"- in which mousedom is terrified as mice crack their teeth on phony cheese bits made of concrete... "The Theft of the Mousa Lisa"- in which Basil ferrets out the truth behind the strange theft of Mexico's beloved masterpieces... "The disappearance of Dr. Dawson"- in which, horror of horrors, basil's faithful friend and companion is mousenapped! In all of these daring adventures, Basil proves himself to be a true discipline of his hero, Sherlock Holmes!"
This book is out of print.
A most extraordinary detective! Basil of Baker Street-mouse detective genius- is off on a perilous expedition leady thirty-two mice up a towering mountain. Their objective: to locate and rescue a famous colony of mice- missing for six centuries! A clue in the form of an arrow with strange markings has sent Basil scurrying off to Switzerland in search of the lost colony. But all is not smooth in the path of our Sherlock Holmes of the Mouse World. he must confront the mysterious giant snow mouse, and the sinister plots of evil Professor Ratigan, ruler of the mouse underworld!"
This book is out of print.
Speech bubble on front cover reads: "Help! I'm stuck in a mystery of double-crosses, steamy broads, and killer cream pies."
Back cover synopis reads:
Crack detective Eddie Valiant Tackles his Toughest Case:
I found the bungalow and rang the bell.
My client answered the door.
He was almost my height, close to six feet, but only if you counted his eighteen
inch ears.
For eyes he had twin black dots, floating in the center of two oblong white
saucers. His white stomach, nose toes, and palms on a light brown body made
him resemble someone who had just walked face first into a freshly painted wall.
I'm Eddie Valiant, private eye. You the one who called?"
"Yes, I am," he said, extending a fuzzy white paw. "I'm Roger Rabbit."