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Author: Higgs Raccoon

In Franz Kafka’s classic 1915 short story The Metamorphosis, travelling salesman Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to find he has turned into a giant insect. In furry fandom, the story is often considered a pivotal work by lovers of transformation fiction.

The story is now being given a fluffy makeover in Cook Coleridge’s The Meowmorphosis. Instead of an insect, Samsa finds himself turned into an adorable kitten.

Published by Quirk Classics (whose previous mashup novels include Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Android Karenina), The Meowmorphosis will be available from May 10.

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Author: crossaffliction

Furry fandom has had more than its fair share of criticism, both from within and without. A Flayrah review of Shawn Keller’s “Horrifying Look at the Furries” (2001) notes that Mr. Keller “associated furry with bestiality and pedophilia.” A decade later, most of our critics do the same.

But the title was purposely provocative. This may come as a surprise, but I’m not talking about the furry fandom at all. Instead, I’m calling for more criticism of the furry genre.

This piece has three goals: to explain why criticism is needed, what kind of criticism, and finally to offer a few points of criticism as examples.

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The producer of the Rochester radio show The Breakfast Buzz contacted our office Wednesday, May 4th asking for information on the Furry Fandom. I had planned on just answering one or two questions, but the producer went ahead and put me on live with the shows morning hosts, Kimberly & Beck.

All of this was off the cuff and not rehearsed. I hope I didn’t embarrass the fandom.

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Author: Fred

Amazon.com lists an August publication date (but publisher Baen Books says June) for “Exiled: Clan of the Claw, Book One”, a book containing three connected novellas by Harry Turtledove, John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye, and S. M. Stirling.

The book is set in a fantasy alternate universe without humans where:

… the Mrem Clan of the Claw and its sister warbands … face the Lishkash, masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies and magic.

Amazon.com says the book is edited by Bill Fawcett.

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Recently stumbled across: Miranda and the Tiger’s Eye, by Sara Beacham. “Miranda’s adventure begins with a gift and a wish. The gift, from a collector’s shop in India, is a special stone that fell from a statue stolen long ago. The stone, called a tiger’s eye, is said to have magical powers. Follow Miranda as she literally falls into a journey beyond the mist. Along the way, she is joined by a talking Secretary Bird and Barn Owl. Together they search for the rightful owner of the tiger’s eye.” That rightful owner is a tiger named Raja, and Miranda’s journey to find him takes her, two talking birds, and numerous other animal characters on an adventure that critics have compared to both Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis. Miranda and the Tiger’s Eye is available from FOM Publishing. You can read more about it on Amazon.

 

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Author: Fred

Amazon.com lists the price for a used copy of out-of-print short-story anthology “Best in Show: Fifteen Years of Outstanding Furry Fiction“ as $ 348.33.

“Best in Show” won two Ursa Major awards for 2003, for Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work and Best Anthropomorphic Published Illustration.

Ed: The anthology was reprinted without interior illustrations as “Furry!: The World’s Best Anthropomorphic Fiction“, currently available for a far more reasonable $ 11.08.

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Author: Rabbit Valley Comics

Tonight we say “farewell” to contributor K as he heads to a new live in Oklahoma. There’s drinking, embarrassing stories, booze, swearing, alcohol, and did we mention liquor?

Find the full article here: Live from the Hop Inn

This podcast may contain adult language and themes. It is not produced by Furry News Network but is provided to you as a service.

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EDITORIAL
It is rare that I find a video that I feel needs to be shared whether is is news or not.  In this case, I came across this video today, and feel the content is something many in the Furry fandom can benefit from.

The video is written, and produced by PyroFox (PyroFox04 on YouTube).  While the tone is loud and gruff, the message is clear. [Warning - Strong language]

PLEASE HELP BY SHARING THE LINK!

You know, I’ve tried to hit on this furry angle before, when my rants sucked more (Most of them have since been deleted in favor of better ones).

And I came to the terms, with the assistance of a few good friends, that it’s simply wrong for me to try to approach it in the manner I have in the past — namely, trying to push the term “furry” further and further into the abyss of negativity, while distancing people like myself, who enjoy the milder forms of the fandom, from that negativity with terms like “anthro” or whatnot.

If that’s still your bag, and you feel like that’s how you have to deal with the obvious stereotyping problem that goes on among furries, more power to you — but I’m gonna reword myself with this rant, and try to say what’s really on my mind about the subject, and furthermore do my part to dispel stereotypes rather than hide from them…even though it’s going to be like pissing in a sea of piss, and won’t change much.

Here’s my wager — you are either going to really like this rant, or really hate it.

Either way, you’re gonna…really.

You can post responses to Pyro on his YouTube page here

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Zombie Carter has posted his latest strip…  Seems zombies might not be the nemesis furries should fear…

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Be sure to check out the comic.  Pretty funny stuff!

The Zombie Nation by Carter Reid

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The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for graphic novels was awarded to Adam Hines for “Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One,” his tale of an animal-world uprising.

The book, set in a world where animals can talk, chronicles the plight of the furry and feathered souls who chafe under the cruel hand of human dominion. The judges praised “Duncan” as a “powerful, prodigious work about the question of who the world belongs to, with an incredibly strong, original visual and narrative aesthetic.”

I thought at 1st is was going to be some weird furry spin on the whole Green Lantern stuff. I was wrong. We still get a high-quality furry comics.

"On a small, isolated island run by ruthless gangs and powerful crime families lies a town of brothels and drug dens, serving all who come into port. The natural barrier of the sea makes escape for anyone nearly impossible, and most live out their lives with no hope of buying their freedom from the oppressive hyena gangs that own them.

Amon is one such indentured servant. Sold into the life from a young age, he's passed his 30th year, and approaching the end of his usefulness to his Madame. With far too much left to repay to earn his freedom, his outlook is bleak. And then, he is given the humiliating task of training his replacement, a young, exotic tiger whose naivete and innocence make his indoctrination into the brothel life even more difficult.

War rages in the waters surrounding the small Shanivaar islands, and naval soldiers are spilling into port in droves. Could these foreigners be the salvation the captive workers so gravely need, or do they bring nothing but danger from abroad?"

The band is called Man with a Mission and comprises of a bunch of people in wolf masks. O you crazy Japanese people!

Lindsey Batdorf is a student at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, completing her degree in Digital Film-Making. Recently she completed her thesis film, called Furry. It tells the story of a college student and furry fan, who attempts to explain himself to his friends, fellow students, and his would-be girlfriend. According to the director, “This film is intended to shed a positive light on the furry fandom while also poking some fun at it as well. If you like it, thank you! If you don’t like it for whatever reason, you are entitled to your opinion. Can’t please everyone!” Lindsey has a trailer for the completed film up on Vimeo. Unfortunately, she can’t post the entire film on-line, due to college restrictions, but she says it will be showing up at various film festivals in the near future.

Two-time Academy Award® winner Jodie Foster directs and co-stars with two-time Academy Award® winner Mel Gibson in THE BEAVER -- an emotional story about a man on a journey to re-discover his family and re-start his life.
Plagued by his own demons, Walter Black was once a successful toy executive and family man who now suffers from depression. No matter what he tries, Walter can't seem to get himself back on track...until a beaver hand puppet enters his life.

THE BEAVER opens Spring 2011.

Author: Higgs Raccoon

The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded on Friday (April 29, 2011), in a ceremony at the Chandler Auditorium of the Los Angeles Times in California, USA. Amongst the winners, the award for graphic novels went to Adam Hines for the anthropomorphic tale Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One.

Duncan tells the story of an animal uprising in a world where talking animals chafe under the cruel hand of human dominion. Judges praised the story as a “powerful, prodigious work about the question of who the world belongs to, with an incredibly strong, original visual and narrative aesthetic”.

Upon receiving the award, Hines, 27, said “I started working on this book back in 2002 when I was 18, and only just finished last March, and that’s a long time to work on something that you don’t know will be of any good use to anyone”. He also stated that he is already working on the second book in what he plans to be a nine-volume epic: “I’ll be working on these books until I’m 70″.

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Author: toonces

We’ve got a pair of surreal stories to discuss, today. Sedric’s “Chitchester Gap” presents a fantasy scenario, a public seduction by a doppelganger minus the goatee. And “Vignette from the Highway” by Lycanthromancer presents a symbolic, even cryptic fragment for the reader to digest and interpret. And also Toonces asks Skip if he can slob his own knob. Tune in for that, too.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Find the full article here: The Bad Dog Book Club » Podcast

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Richard Kretovic aka Formic Hivemind

Author: Higgs Raccoon

Formic Hivemind, charged in April with sexually abusing a boy he met over the internet, has been indicted on nineteen charges by a Monroe County grand jury.

It is alleged that Formic Hivemind (the online alias of 19-year-old Richard J. Kretovic) abused the 12-year-old boy after meeting him through Xbox Live. The indictments handed down by the grand jury are for nine counts each of the felonies of first-degree criminal sexual acts and second-degree sexual abuse, and one count of endangering the welfare of a child.

Kretovic is currently free on $ 50,000 bail. A date for his appearance in Monroe County Court or the state Supreme Court has yet to be set.

[Updated 5/4/2011 - 5:00pm]

From WHEC News:

Kretovic’s lawyer talked about him today.

“Richard is a young man with a long history of intellectual and emotional disabilities and we’re exploring what role that may have played in bringing him before the court today,” Steve Leonardo said.

Leonardo says that might be a factor in the defense for his client. The case was waived to a grand jury.

 

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[Tip: @Talliy]Via Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Illinois company is recalling pet chews made of pig’s ears because they could be contaminated with salmonella.

One illness, to a dog in Missouri, has been linked to the chews, called Pig Ears for Pet Treats. The product is being recalled by the Keys Manufacturing Co. Inc. of Paris, Ill.

Salmonella can affect animals, and there is risk to people from handling contaminated pet products.

The bacteria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people and those with weakened immune systems. Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Pets with salmonella may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea fever and vomiting.

The pet treats were distributed in Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

Consumers can return the pet treats to the place of purchase for a full refund.

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Online:

Company website:http://www.keysmanufacturing.com

 

 

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