By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells

As the Anasigma paramilitary mobilizes, their nonhuman targets turn to the glimmer of hope offered by Project Skin Horse, which started as a social services agency but is now a rebel movement roaming the country in a giant robot because...well, it’s been a long decade. Shapeshifting gerbil Artie is forced to take time off from teaching first grade and go underground with a community of (fairly) intelligent rats. Fox techie Reynard flees a plant entity gone amok. And everyone is having dreams that are almost as strange as waking life...