Personal journal as short story finder

[epershand]

Ok, friends, I am putting my faith in you. I am trying to remember the author (and titles) of a series of short stories that were published in Analog in roughly the 1998-2001ish time frame. I think I read three or four of them, published at the rate of approximately one story a year.

Plot: scientist invents cat that never ages beyond being a kitten. Never-ending kitten-itude leads to constant learning at a high rate leads to hyperintelligent kittens leads to MURDER.

Any pointers?

ETA: Digging through the link prismakaos provided jogged my memory about the titles enough that I was able to find it! Jeffrey D. Kooistra's Kittens series includes "Puff" [Analog, December 1993], "Fluffy" [Analog, June 1996], and "Snowball" [Analog, July 1996].

Comments

[meloukhia]

I don't now, but I totally want to read these. So if someone manages to get through on LJ to comment, be sure to pop back here and let us know?

[epershand]

I will do so!

[epershand]

I found them, and have updated the post.

[meloukhia]

You are the bee's knees!

[la_dissonance]

Nothing to offer on the story-finding front, alas, but DAMN that sounds like an awesome crack plot. Also I want a cat that stays in permanent kitten-itude...I could convince it to be a benevolent permanent kitten, probably. >_>

[epershand]

I think there's one story in the series where instead of murdering their creators the hyper-intelligent kittens find a human to love and murder anybody who they think is a threat to that human? I think that's the best you can hope for in this particular universe.

Having read this series in early high school means that I am much less comfortable than most with the concept of eternal kittens. It... really stuck around in my head.

[la_dissonance]

Stuff you read at that age really does tend to stick in your head, alas. If only I'd had the chance to read about diabolical kittens and not...Ethan Frome and stuff, ew.

[epershand]

I managed to pull off both the diabolical kittens and Mr. Boring-emotions-with-a-sleigh. (Ethan Frome, why are you the Edith Wharton book everyone has to read? She is one of my favorite authors, but you objectively suck as a book.)

But I've found the kittens and their author, at least. [post updated with the answer]

[la_dissonance]

Whee!

[vito_excalibur]

Dunno, but I love your tags!

[epershand]

Tagging is fun! And the kittens are found!

[prismakaos]

Can't help you, but here's a directory: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?9094

[epershand]

\o/ you are win.