The Complete Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1-3)

More than three decades ago, H. Beam Piper's bestselling science fiction novel Little Fuzzy captivated readers everywhere. Now, all three of Piper's delightful books are available for the first time in one omnibus.Little Fuzzy:Zarathustra was a Class III uninhabited planet, and the chartered Zarathustra Company owned it lock stock and barrel. They developed it, exploited it and reaped huge profits without any interference from the Colonial Government.But then, out of nowhere, came Jack Holloway - with a family of Fuzzies and a great deal of evidence that they were more than just cute little animals.If the Fuzzies were a race of intelligent beings, the Zarathustra would automatically become a Class-IV inhabited planet, and the company's charter and privileges would be over.The chartered Zarathustra Company wasn't going to allow that to happen.Fuzzy Sapiens: (Originally Titled: "The Other Human Race")The Pendarvis Decision had declared the Fuzzies to be intelligent beings - guaranteeing them protection and security. But just how much were those assurances worth?The Fuzzies were about to find out ...Someone was going to make big profits by exploiting them, and there wasn't much that could prevent the Fuzzies from becoming just another extinct species on Mankind's conscience...Fuzzies and Other People:There were still so many things Fuzzies had to learn." ... that's the final line of H. Beam Piper's classic Fuzzy Sapiens, where the story broke off twenty years ago. Following Piper's tragic suicide in 1964, there were persistent rumors that he had written a sequel to Fuzzy Sapiens, a third Fuzzy novel. Some of his friends had been told about it, a few had even read parts of it. But the manuscript itself remained lost until it was discovered in a trunk in a basement in Pennsylvania.Now, at last, return to Piper's Zarathustra. It's been twenty years for us - but only three months since Jack Holloway found and... Paperback, 464 pages Published December 1st 1998 by Ace More than three decades ago, H. Beam Piper's bestselling science fiction novel Little Fuzzy captivated readers everywhere. Now, all three of Piper's delightful books are available for the first time in one volume: Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies And Other People.

More than three decades ago, H. Beam Piper's bestselling science fiction novel Little Fuzzy captivated readers everywhere. Now, all three of Piper's delightful books are available for the first time in one volume: Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzies And Other People.

Traces the friendship between human Jack Holloway and the small, golden-furred, intelligent creatures he discovered on the planet Zarathustra