Silas Farsight and the Children of Aldebaran is a fantasy adventure for young people set in a future when the Animals once again rule. One day a raiding party of cats kidnaps two for the otters, Magda and Anya. Silas Farsight, another otter and the lawyer in the village they live in, sets off on a desperate rescue mission accompanied by his clerk, a stoat, and helped by the badgers and foxes.

His journey leads hiim tot he sea-otter corsairs, where he finds that he is the long-lost son of onbe of the most famous of their warriors, who was hidden in the woodland village for...