
Friends Indeed
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Baen · Ebook · March 4, 2025
A NEW NOVEL FEATURING STEPHANIE HARRINGTON IN HONORVERSE PREQUEL SERIES THE TROUBLE WITH TREECATS Stephanie Harrington didn’t discover treecats—they were indigenous to the planet Sphinx, a colony of the tiny Star Kingdom of Manticore.
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- Who it’s for
- A spacefaring adventure turns on the question of whether treecats are sapient—and who gets to decide.
- Themes
- Nonhuman sapience, Human–treecat bonds, Treecat advocacy
- Genres
- Space Opera, Alien Contact, Sci-Fi Adventure
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A NEW NOVEL FEATURING STEPHANIE HARRINGTON IN HONORVERSE PREQUEL SERIES THE TROUBLE WITH TREECATS Stephanie Harrington didn’t discover treecats—they were indigenous to the planet Sphinx, a colony of the tiny Star Kingdom of Manticore. But at age ten she was the first human to bond with one. Now, almost 17, she is the species’ greatest champion.
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To the rest of the human galaxy, if they are known at all, they are recognized as tool-using, socially organized, fuzzy little creatures, with no known method of communication—who also happen to be fierce hunters. But are they sapient . . . ? Because if they are, that would have all sorts of repercussions for the families who have settled on Sphinx—the Harringtons not the least. There will be winners, and there will be losers. And Stephanie is there to make sure the treecats don’t lose out. But Stephanie, the treecats, and Sphinx itself may be caught up in an even greater conspiracy than the one to help the fighting ‘cats survive, one generations in the making . . .
Small Allies, Big Stakes
A spacefaring adventure turns on the question of whether treecats are sapient—and who gets to decide.
Come here for
- A young champion standing up for Sphinx’s fierce, tool-using treecats
- The knot of alien intelligence, colony politics, and a generations-old conspiracy
Expect
- A sustained adventure rooted in Stephanie’s bond with the treecats
- Big consequences for a small colony and its nonhuman neighbors
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 86% |
|---|---|
| Alien Contact | 73% |
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Space Opera
- Alien Contact
- Authors
- David Weber, Jane Lindskold
- Publisher
- Baen
- Published
- March 4, 2025
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Nonhuman sapience · Human–treecat bonds · Treecat advocacy
- Reading lane
- Sci-Fi Adventure