In this novel, the fledgling government of Zarathustra encounters a few fuzzy-related problems they need to solve, and Piper moves his civil servants around the bureaucratic game board to get them resolved. Piper, when writing science fiction, enjoys playing with imaginary governments like other people enjoy playing chess. In the week that has passed since the first novel ended, Jack Holloway and most of his cronies have been appointed to government positions.

This brought up some fascinating philosophical debates about the nature of what it means to be human, but since a decision was reached at the end of Little Fuzzy, the Fuzzy franchise shows it is losing steam in this second installment.

A legal battle ensued between Holloway’s friends, who asserted that fuzzies are an intelligent life form that deserves human rights, and a resource-exploiting corporation, who asserted that fuzzies are just dumb animals. In that first book, a gem prospector named Jack Holloway discovered a species of monkey-like beings, dubbed fuzzies. The story of this sequel begins about a week after the events related in Little Fuzzy. You don’t have to know much about Piper’s Terro-Human Future History to enjoy the Fuzzy books, but you do need to have read Little Fuzzy to understand what’s going on in Fuzzy Sapiens. In 1976, however, the title was changed to Fuzzy Sapiens, which has stuck with it ever since. Its sequel was published in 1964 under the title of The Other Human Race. This trilogy, known as the Fuzzy series, began with Little Fuzzy, published in 1962. One such world is the planet Zarathustra, where a trilogy of novels takes place roughly 600 years from now. Like Frank Herbert’s Dune, Piper’s speculative history charts the diaspora of the human race over thousands of years as we spread out through the stars to colonize other planets. Beam Piper established a fictional timeline known as the Terro-Human Future History, which consists of a total of 16 novels and short stories. Over the course of his career, science fiction writer H.

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