[cripplecreek]

“Little Fuzzy” by H. Beam Piper

Its a 1962 sci fi story I grabbed from the Gutenburg Project. I’m only a few pages in so I’m not quite sure where its going yet.

[Tax-chick]

The series was reissued in paperback in the early 80s. Very cute.

[papertyger]

You should read “Fuzzy Nation” by John Scalzi which was written as a tribute to “Little Fuzzy.”

Good book!

[Darnright]

>“Little Fuzzy” by H. Beam Piper

Its a 1962 sci fi story I grabbed from the Gutenburg Project.<

I just read it not a month ago. It’s definitely worth the read. It’s a shame Piper is not more widely known. I’d definitely recommend The Cosmic Computer and Space Viking.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks!

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8301?start_index=26&sort_order=release_date

PK Dick is the only sci-fi writer I occasionally go back to; since 1984 the only sci-fi, actually the only fiction, I’ve read (that comes to mind anyway) was the Lord of the Rings (re-read it for the first time in decades to refresh my memory prior to the release of the first of the movies), a James Hogan “Inherit the Stars” (recommended somewhere here in the pages of FR, thanks to whomever that was), and some PK Dick short stories (also re-read some portions of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”). The first of PKD’s I ever read happened more or less by accident, “Our Friends from Frolix 8”, found it in what was a decent-sized library in my small home town, must havbe been around 12 or 13. My sister snagged it first, read it in a couple of days, then let me have it back. :’)

Besides “Blade Runner”, “Total Recall” (which has been movied twice), “Minority Report”, looks like ten others. TR is fun and everything, but the few pages of short story on which it’s very loosely based kicks the crap out of the screenplay. Same goes btw imho with “Blade Runner”, a sad unfinished travesty that uses the names of the characters here and there, otherwise very little connection. I’ve never read “The Minority Report”, so I don’t know how it compares; I’ll say that as Spielberg’s stuff goes, I prefer it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_by_Philip_K._Dick

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It is going to toward fun.

That is one of my headboard books, a small stash of books I keep to re-read when I can't sleep and don't feel like going to the library to find something new.

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