FF: Powers That Be

This week’s Flashback Friday: Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Scarborough

Anthropomorphism has been used in science fiction and fantasy for…well, as long as the genre has existed. In fact, Aesop’s fables are fraught with it, as are many religious texts. I think my first exposure to it was in reading various fairy tales, and while I understood animals acting like humans, I’d not given a lot of thought to the idea of a human being existing as part animal–at least not beyond...