Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? I have a brudder! He’s the bestest kind of brudder: he doesn’t eat, and he doesn’t play wif my toys, and he doesn’t hog Momma up. His name is Coconut Fluff. Momma says he’s by big brudder,…

Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? I gots lots of toys! Momma says I think ebbything is a cat toy. Isn’t it? It is! She also says I have to learn that her arms and legs are not chew toys. But they tas’e…

Maybe you don’t like science fiction. Do you like dogs? What if two dogs found a small spaceship in the woods? And one of the dogs was telling you the story? In this sample from “Dog Star,” one of the stories in my science fiction…