“Dahlia meant to make the disenfranchised cats and underdogs of Earth love Kipper.”

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Read chapter 29 of Otters In Space 2: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois2-ch29/

“Before either of the raptor ships could finish their descent, each of them exploded.”

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“Under the haphazard piratical law of the otters in deep space, Captain Cod felt that the octopus base was his…”

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“…she was a cat with connections on many worlds.”

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Read chapter 32 of Otters In Space 2: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois2-ch32/

“One district after another elected Alistair Brighton president — beating out both the competition and his own running mate.”

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Read chapter 33 (the final chapter!) of Otters In Space 2: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois2-ch33/

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We’re about to bring you Otters In Space 3, chapter by chapter, with all new illustrations!

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“A fleet of enemy vessels had assembled between Jupiter and Io, and Brighton’s Destiny was barreling right toward them.”

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Read chapter 1 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch1/

“We need to ask the octopi for help.”

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Read chapter 2 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch2/

“…Jenny realized that a lot of problems with the Europa base could be solved by flooding it. Cats and dogs were a lot less likely to fight over a base filled with water.”

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Read chapter 3 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch3/

“”Would the kittens like balloons?” the waiter asked, nearly cringing. Clearly, it was a question he was required to ask — not one that he wanted to ask.”

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Read chapter 4 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch4/

“Why in the hell was she about to let a bunch of otters drag her down to the octopus oligarchy when there was a whole squirrel culture here for her to explore?”

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Read chapter 5 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch5/

“The Pine Nut Patisserie was crowded. Shoulder-high squirrels skittered around Kipper, their ears twitching and tails waving like streamers in many different winds.”

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Read chapter 6 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch6/

“What was it with this admiral and seriousness? It’s almost like he wasn’t an otter at all.”

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Read chapter 7 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch7/

“Pete had a long, blue, silky scarf tied around his neck. He grabbed the ends of it and fluttered them, exclaiming, “I’m an uplifted butterfly!””

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Read chapter 8 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch8/

“She’d known the Church of the First Race had a lot of power, but… They edited the news? Had she been living in a religious hegemony? Without knowing it?”

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Read chapter 9 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch9/

“They didn’t have blueprints for it, and even if they did, it was too much to hope it had a single central weakness that could be exploited by a ragtag strike team of six otter ships and a stolen Whirligig scout.”

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Read chapter 10 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch10/

“She was the president’s sister, but out here, next to a dog in a police uniform with a gun, she was still just an alley cat.”

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Read chapter 11 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch11/

“For millions of years,” the blue-eyed octopus signed, “we’ve hidden here under the seas on this tiny planet, exiled from our rightful home in the stars by the foolish, damnable, unutterable crimes of our ancestral siblings inside Jupiter. Until now. Until you revealed us.”

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Read chapter 12 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch12/

“As they grew closer, the roiling orange took on depth and texture. An entire alien landscape was rising to meet them in shades and swirls of cinnamon, peach, tangerine, and apricot.”

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Read chapter 13 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch13/

“The octopi might be strong, but their flesh was soft. She could have filled that round room with a cloud of blood before they would have — inevitably — pulled off her breathing mask. In truth, a physical fight could never go well for a cat this far under the ocean.”

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Read chapter 14 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch14/

“For a moment, Jenny thought she was looking at Earth — her home world, flashing before her eyes as she died. But no, this world was really here inside the heart of Jupiter. A planet within a planet.”

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Read chapter 15 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch15/

“…the computer in Jenny’s helmet translated the sound, speaking in a melodic but artificial otter voice: “Yes.” A moment later, the computer added, “There is an eighty percent chance of inaccuracy. Other possible translations include: no.”

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Read chapter 16 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch16/

“Somehow, whenever a dog went missing, the police always found a way to discover what had happened. That wasn’t the case with cats.”

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Read chapter 17 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch17/

“The octopuses hadn’t come back through the sealed hatch in the underwater floor, but occasionally they sent in a dolphin with a puzzle for them.”

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Read chapter 18 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch18/

“The raptor fledglings hadn’t even grown up on a world where they could see the stars. Their sky was a blanket of amber, muffling out the sun, let alone the pinpoint of light that was the small blue-green world their species had come from millions of years ago.”

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Read chapter 19 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch19/

“Almost afraid to touch the precious pages, Petra lifted the three brightly-colored crayon drawings, one from each kitten, with shaking paws.”

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Read chapter 20 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch20/

“Any creature could be uplifted. Jellyfish fluttering like ballerinas? Maybe they were ballerinas — maybe they’d spent years training and studying to flutter like that.”

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Read chapter 21 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch21/

“Even if she made it down to ground level, she’d be free on a planet filled with dinosaurs. Even if most of them were harmless herbivores, she didn’t relish that idea.”

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Read chapter 22 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch22/

“Petra felt cold inside. She had military intelligence that could change the course of a war, and she was still at the mercy of a few over-paid copper dogs who didn’t like her.”

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Read chapter 23 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch23/

“Kipper wished she could tuck the tiny tentacled baby in a pocket and smuggle it out of here to raise it with a family. She and Emily could keep it and raise it together. That would be a nice family. Does it count as kidnapping if the child is fated to die?”

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Read chapter 24 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch24/

“Way, way down beneath the quagmire of toxic gases that looked like cheerful creamsicle clouds, there was at least one raptor who believed raptors and otters could be friends, that maybe someday they could visit each other peacefully.”

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“Kipper felt the soft, probing of a tentacle wrap around her shoulder and the many kiss-like touches as another coiled around one of her paws.”

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Read chapter 26 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch26/

“There are whole poems — whole books of psalms — that basically amount to the holy humans holding their hands out and saying, ‘STAY!’ to all of dog-kind before they left Earth.”

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Read chapter 27 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch27/

“Half a dozen otters and, a moment later, Kipper fired their grappling guns into the darkness of space that yawned in front of the open airlock.”

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Read chapter 28 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch28/

“You think because a cat shows up with a sword and says, ‘fight with me,’ that you’re suddenly going to start a revolution?”

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Read chapter 29 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch29/

“…it didn’t feel real when she saw a pair of feathered raptors look through the door, tentacles rising from their shoulders. If they were real, she should have been able to feel them in the motion of the water.”

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“Drowning in memories together, Enzz’rr’kk and Emily sensed each other — each of them infinitely young in comparison to the silver tentacle — and clung to one another, trying not to lose their individual selves entirely to the tentacle’s wealth of being.”

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Read chapter 31 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch31/

“She didn’t know if she was signing to an octopus controlling a raptor or to a raptor controlling an octopus, but either way, it seemed safest to be polite.”

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Read chapter 32 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch32/

“…her scientists brought her a treasure trove of ancient octopus technology.”

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Read chapter 33 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch33/

“The future was full of new possibilities for a tabby cat with a space program to run.”

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Read chapter 34 of Otters In Space 3: http://deepskyanchor.com/ois3-ch34/