An Echo of the Pride

About the Book

My name is Dillon Tykye, and one look at me will tell you that I am not human. I am a lion, a very large cat. I have a mane and a tail and teeth like a chain saw. I have yellow eyes with vertical irises like all cats have. My hands are humanoid, as are my feet, but the rest of me is feline. I have retractable claws on my fingers and toes, and when deployed, they are about three inches long and very sharp. I am heavily built and very fast. I have the face of a lion with whiskers and all, and I have a pink nose and fur all over my face, but I walk upright and wear shoes most of the time. My second in command is Lyara, a female of my kind. We both wear clothes like most humanoid people, but there the resemblance ends. I have a black mane and a black end on my tail. My hue is the color of a lion, as is Lyara’s. My woman and I have been together since we were cubs on the planet Kato in the Andromeda galaxy. Lyara is five feet seven inches tall and about two inches shorter than me. She is lithesome and lean and is the most beautiful lioness. She is everything I could want in a mate and is a hunter second to none. There is another member of the crew, and she takes some explaining. She is my pet black cat, Myra, who sort of adopted me some time ago. She is an android cat and does what I tell her to do. She can get into places that I can’t get into, and what she sees I see. The other member of the crew is a bird person by the name of Hawk. He is as fast as lightning with a gun and never misses, and he is a computer whiz.

About the Author

James Thomae is a seventy-seven-year-old man, and this is his fifth novel. He has had numerous poems published in the book At Water’s Edge, the International Library of Poetry. He has spent time on an Indian reservation and makes Native American drums. He went to Southern Illinois University, where he met his beloved wife, Jeanie. Together they traveled most of the western states and now live in Alton, Illinois, with his cats, Kato and Shadow.