After the Fall

Attacked by a dog at the age of three, Peter can't stand dogs. Yet, after a fall while hiking alone in the Montana wilderness, he meets a creature that offers to save him…if he becomes a dog owner. "e;Kristine Kathryn Rusch integrates the fantastic elements so rigorously into her story that it is often hard to remember she is not merely recording the here and now."e;—Science Fiction Weekly