Cherryh’s 1981 ( 1982 for the expanded version) Pride of Chanur might therefore seem to be an odd choice for me to review, since the hani are very clearly modeled on terrestrial lions and lions are, as we know, big cuddly cats who just to hug us all. (Although I think he is being unfair there’s also the question whether cat-owners are just meat-puppets dancing on T. To quote Pratchett: “If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. I think what bothers me is that SF authors seem to fetishize their fictional cats, painting them as little humans in fursuits, rather than as gleefully predatory obligate carnivores 2. This may sound odd, given the number of cats I have owned, from poor Othello 1 back in the 1960s to intellectually uncomplicated Ibid now. One of the many ways in which the SF norm and I diverge is that I have an antipathy for fictional cats.
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