This is all kinds of awesome. Thank you, Annalee, and thanks to the io9 commenters for your support!

Thanks for the hat tip, Annalee! And serious kudos to Gaudy Mouse Muad'Dib for starting this, and to Duke Norik and Nikoda for all the work they did to help Mousy do this!

That gif is BOMB!

The cover artist here: I hope everyone likes the cover. I'm going to get a little self-promoty here so bear with me. A few people expressed interest in a poster and/or t-shirt version of the cover, and we've decided to make those available here:

So many feels, you guys. So many.

And she's been posting an ongoing continuation of that in TT.

HELL YES

I should mention that "Hunger Pangs" is my contribution to this wonderful collaboration!

Everyone needs to head over to the ThursdayTales section. There are tons of fantastic stories being posted every week!

Mein Gott, that book has a beautiful cover!