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Little Fuzzy is the name of a 1962 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. It was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The story revolves around determining whether a small furry species discovered on the planet Zarathustra is sapient. Along the way a gentle kind... Read Full Overview

Little Fuzzy is the name of a 1962 science fiction novel by H. Beam Piper. It was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.The story revolves around determining whether a small furry species discovered on the planet Zarathustra is sapient. Along the way a gentle kind... Read Full Overview

Little FuzzyByH. Beam Piper

Before Ewoks... Before Avatar... There Were Fuzzies A Fine New Edition of a Beloved Science Fiction ClassicProspector Jack Holloway is happy with his solitary life, mining for sunstones in the wilds of backwater planet Zarathustra.Until a small,... Read Full Overview

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H. Beam Piper's classic and much-loved science fiction novel Little Fuzzy.

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life in a wilderness of the planet Zarathustra. When a strange intelligent animal walks into his life from out... Read Full Overview

This classic novel--a nominee for the Hugo Award in 1963--is the first book of Pipers series about the discovery of another sentient race, the Fuzzies, and the one man who fights to prove them mankind's equal.

The chartered Zarathustra Company had it all their way. Their charter was for a Class III uninhabited planet, which Zarathustra was, and it meant they owned the planet lock stock and barrel. They exploited it, developed it and reaped the huge profits from it without interference... Read Full Overview

The planet Zarathustra is listed as uninhabited -- which means that the entire planet can be owned by a corporation. That owner is the rich and happy Zarathustra Company -- rich and happy, that is, until a prospector named Jack Holloway comes across undocumented... Read Full Overview

"Little Fuzzy" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction narrative set on the planet Zarathustra, where prospector Jack Holloway discovers a small, intelligent creature he names Little Fuzzy. The story begins with Jack's solitary life as he searches for valuable sunstones. His routine... Read Full Overview

In the wild, uncharted forests of planet Zarathustra, a simple act of kindness unravels humanity's most profound questions: what does it mean to be sapient, and who decides? When an interstellar prospector stumbles upon a gentle, golden-furred alien species, the fragile boundary... Read Full Overview

Little Fuzzy is a science fiction novel set on the planet Zarathustra, a world rich in natural resources being exploited by a huge chartered company from Earth. Jack Holloway is a free-lance sunstone miner working on the outskirts of civilization... Read Full Overview

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper is a classic science fiction novel set on the distant planet Zarathustra, where prospector Jack Holloway discovers a small, golden-furred creature he names Little Fuzzy. What begins as a charming encounter soon turns into a legal and moral battle... Read Full Overview

Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper is a classic science fiction novel set on the distant planet Zarathustra, where prospector Jack Holloway discovers a small, golden-furred creature he names Little Fuzzy. What begins as a charming encounter soon turns into a legal and moral battle... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes. He raised a hand to push his hat forward, then lowered it to the controls to alter the pulse rate of the contragravity-field generators and lift the manipulator another hundred feet. For a moment he sat,... Read Full Overview