Spacecats! Alien hermaphroditic spacecats! Alien hermaphroditic spacecats who have decided that space is shiny and traveling is shiny and asteroid mining--well, though not exactly SHINY, at least pays the bills. Piracy = also shiny, and sometimes better than mining.

My cowriter and I have a double-handful of stories and settings and such covering about a thousand years. Mostly focussing around the spacecats' semi-tradition of having a human on all their ships (said human usually scooped up because they are down and out somewhere and need a ride, and because someone on the 'cat ship is going to have kittens, and humans, the cats have decided, make EXCELLENT babysitters for spacecat kittens, and anyone who will keep tiny, furred, clawed, highly mobile, and incredibly DUMB balls of fur out of the maintenance shafts, wiring, and/or hyperdrive totally deserves a discount on passage....) ;P