ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This one I blame on the Beatys The millions of hours we spent watching sci-fi movies and British TV shows while consuming mass quantities of buttery popcorn and Pepsi left an enormous mark on my brain and my waistline I love you all more than you can know Thanks to Michael Katie and Andrew for your endless support and supply of chocolate Godzilla-size thanks to Susan Van Metre for being the best editor in the universe Thanks to my uber-talented agent Barry Goldblatt and to Howard Chad Jason Mary Ann Andrea Brett and everyone at ABRAMS I want you all on my team when the aliens and or zombies and or killer chipmunks attack And finally King Kong size thanks to Dan Santat who is simply brilliant Thank you Thank you Thank you
Meanwhile in space The flaming meteor hurtled through the endless black void Remember this It’s important later
Meanwhile to begin our story Not long ago in a galaxy just beyond the Milky Way but not quite as far as the Peanut Cluster there lived a race of fierce large ugly and ferocious furballs known as the Fierce Large Ugly and Ferocious Furballs Fluffs for short though in reality there is nothing short about Fluffs In fact Fluffs were and are tall with two enormous rabbitlike ears two enormous rabbitlike feet two enormous rabbitlike eyes and one small rabbitlike nose Well they couldn’t have two noses That would be weird Okay so the Fluffs are rabbits But they are not mild mannered cute-cuddly-carrot-crunching happy-hopping rabbits like those found on Earth The Fluffs are fierce warrior rabbits whose long floppy ears are for slapping Whose long floppy feet are for stomping And whose large eyes spin in opposite directions to hypnotize unsuspecting prey Oh yeah and they have fangs Fluffs and domestic Earth rabbits is found on the next page in Table 1 Know Your Fluff taken from The Illustrated Guide to Fluffs and Other Space Creatures You Don’t Want to Meet by Professor Donald J Dewdy Work
