Fuzzy Nation

John Scalzi

May 2011 · Sold by Macmillan

About this eBook

From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, an extraordinary retelling of the SF classic Little Fuzzy

ZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra—as long as the planet is certifiably free of native sentients. So when an outback prospector discovers a species of small, appealing bipeds who might well turn out to be intelligent, language-using beings, it's a race to stop the corporation from "eliminating the problem," which is to say, eliminating the Fuzzies—wide-eyed and ridiculously cute small, and furry—who are as much people as we are.

Other Tor Books
The Android’s Dream
Agent to the Stars
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Fuzzy Nation
Redshirts

1. Lock In
2. Head On

The Interdepency Sequence
1. The Collapsing Empire
2. The Consuming Fire

Old Man's War Series
1. Old Man’s War
2. The Ghost Brigades
3. The Last Colony
4. Zoe’s Tale
5. The Human Division
6. The End of All Things

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Ratings and reviews

Scalzi re-imagines a first contact story with unique characters and roles. The main characters are the sort I've come to love the author for! One of the best weekend reads I've had in a while!

The twist is really good but overall is just okay. I mean you can guess much parts of the story. Entertaining enough.

I read the original H. Beam Piper in high school and loved it. I bought this book thinking it was a continuation rather than a reboot. If I had now it was a reboot I likely wouldn't have bought it. I'm not one for messing with classics. I'm glad I did though. It is a really really good reboot. In particular the human characters are vastly more dimensional. The science is updated, though that is to be expected. I hope he writes another.

About the author

John Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and his debut novel Old Man's War was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo Award. His other books include The Ghost Brigades, The Android's Dream and The Last Colony. He has won the Hugo Award, the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for science-fiction, the Seiun, The Kurd Lasswitz and the Geffen awards. His weblog, Whatever, is one of the most widely-read web sites in modern SF. Born and raised in California, Scalzi studied at the University of Chicago. He lives in southern Ohio with his wife and daughter.