He whirled, to see the damnthing charging him from behind, head down, and middle horn lowered. There was no damnthing on the north side, and he was about to go around to the east side when Little Fuzzy cane dashing past him, pointing to the rear. Stepping out about twenty feet started around counter-clockwise. Why is this so important to human settlers on Zarathustra? - Because if the planet is inhabited by a sapient race, the Zarathustra Company will lose its charter and monopoly.Īlmost from the beginning, the Fuzzies are sharing bravely and intelligently in the adventures: Then he began examining the stones and sorting them by color.

This, he decided, belonged to the class of things-that-can-be-dumped, like wastebaskets, so he dumped it on the floor. He yeeked about that, and looked into the can. The inside of the lid was mirror-shiny, and it took him a little thought to discover that what he saw in it was only himself. Little Fuzzy looked the can over, decided that the lid was a member of the class of things-that-screwed-onto-things and got it off. Shortly the man shows the Fuzzy a canister with his colorful mineral collection: Little Fuzzy and his family move in with Jack Holloway. He watches the Fuzzy skillfully behead a land-prawn with the chisel. Holloway finds his missing wood chisel being used by Little Fuzzy. The Fuzzies have been drawn south along with their food source. It's been the driest Spring in centuries on Zarathustra, and there is a record land-prawn population. This first Fuzzy is introduced in Chapter 2, and even before his kin are introduced in Chapter 3, we're on the side of the Fuzzies. He aptly names this creature Little Fuzzy. One day Jack Holloway, an old prospector, finds something that looks like a small monkey with golden fur it makes sounds like yeek. The planet is controlled by the Chartered Zarathustra Company. Beam Piper that take place on the planet Zarathustra, which has been settled by a million humans so far. Little Fuzzy is the first of three science fiction novels by H.

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