Fuzzy Nation John Scalzi Scalzi’s latest is typical of his work. Fast paced, with well conceived aliens and just a touch of Heinlein’s ultra-competent everyman. Based on H. Beam Piper’s 1962 book Little Fuzzy, this is an attempt to re-imagine the story in a contemporary context. The plot concerns a mining surveyor called Jack Holloway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2,50,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-books","category-fiction","category-rated","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Fuzzy-Nation-John-Scalzi-660x992-372x5601-99x150.jpg\" "\\"Fuzzy")
<\/span>Scalzi’s latest is typical of his work. Fast paced, with well conceived aliens and just a touch of Heinlein’s ultra-competent everyman.
\nBased on H. Beam Piper’s 1962 book Little Fuzzy, this is an attempt to re-imagine the story in a contemporary context.
\nThe plot concerns a mining surveyor called Jack Holloway who identifies an incredibly rich seam of a rare gemstones and the existence of a group of creatures he calls the ‘little fuzzies’ in the same week.
\nThe gems will make the corporation in charge of the planet gigantically wealthy but the existence of the fuzzies could lead to the shutdown of all mining activity under ecological law – if they can be proved to be sentient.
\nI enjoyed reading the book, but I couldn’t say that it struck me as being Scalzi’s best. Maybe that’s because Holloway is not terribly likeable character and the ending seems rather inevitable.
\nI’d recommend it to anyone who likes Scalzi’s stuff and I suspect it’d make a good introduction to science fiction for younger readers.
\nI’d also like to point out that Piper’s original book Little Fuzzy is available for download at Project Gutenberg<\/a> for free as it’s in the public domain. It too is a pretty good read.\n<\/p>\n