book cover of In the Company of a Cat
 

In the Company of a Cat

(2025)
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The Earth has been overrun by the alien Wezwax, who are simply taking the planet for themselves. Humans have been given the option of leaving for the refugee worlds or staying behind as indigenous animals. Jim is a confidential informant for another alien species, the Blue Men, and has a private starship with which he will leave Earth, On the last day, he runs into Carolyn, a co-worker from his day job whose been abandoned by her husband, along with their two little girls. Jim offers them a lift off-world, secretly hoping he can convince Carolyn to become his girlfriend. And there's another crew member on the starship, Buddy a fifteen pound brown tabby whose special powers only the youngest girl can discover.

"In the Company of a Cat" is a new novella by William Barton, author of award-winning science fiction tales "Acts of Conscience" and "Age of Aquarius" and numerous other books and stories, mostly available a Kindle e-books.



Genre: Science Fiction

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