Black Hole Radio: Furi­lani by Ann Bird­ge­naw Great Sci­ence Fic­tion for Younger Read­ers Ann Bird­ge­naw has brought forth anoth­er in her series of Black Hole Radio sto­ries with the Furi­lani adven­ture. The adven­tur­ous kids, Hawk, Matt, and Celeste in the sto­ry use the Black Hole Radio, a rel­ic from Hawk’s grandfather’s shop to trav­el to many worlds, in this case Furi­lani.  A species of fur­ry sen­tient crea­tures called sploots pop­u­late the plan­et Furi­lani. The kids con­vince an exploitive alien busi­ness pro­fes­sion­al V’alvlax to pre­vent sploots from being used as a liv­ing adorn­ment for aliens, some­thing that the sploots are resistant […]