The Lynx hasn't returned from his mission, so it's up to disfavored Champion of the Empire Herc Tom to discover what's happened to him, and what the deceitful feline Isabella and the diabolical canine Lord Phylo are up to in this tale of two species.

"A Tail of Two Species" is a speculative fiction novelette, and is the ninth of the Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire stories.