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Of Mice that Talk like Men: The Joy, and Danger, of Writing Anthropomorphic Fiction

Rick Hodges
4 min readAug 12, 2019

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As a kid, I must have read Richard Adams’ Watership Down seven or eight times. The novel is a saga of refugee rabbits fleeing their destroyed home for a new one. The rabbits are much like people, with different characters, a social order, politics and even their own language.

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Rick Hodges

Writer & editor in the Washington, DC area, and author of works such as To Follow Elephants, winner of a Nautilus Book Award. rickhodgesauthor.com