Cats in Space...and Other Places

by C. J. Cherryh, Anne McCaffrey, Arthur C. Clarke, David Drake, Jody Lynn Nye, Robert A. Heinlein, Bill Fawcett, M.J. Engh, A.E. van Vogt, P.J. Beese, Cordwainer Smith, Greg Bear, Fredric Brown, S.M. Stirling, Fritz Leiber, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Hamilton, Judith R. Conly