Little Fuzzy

Little Fuzzy

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Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper

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1962

Pages:

185

ISBN:

0809562820

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Little Fuzzy

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One day Jack Holloway, prospector on the planet Zarathustra, finds what seems to be a small monkey with golden fur; these new introductions (for the first brings a family) are tiny hunters, and prove to be curious and capable tool users. Why is this so important to the new human settlers? - Because a planet inhabited by a sapient race cannot be monopolized by the Zarathustra Company.

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rcling about it as it revolved slowly.

"The globe itself is keeping perfect time, and Darius is all right, Xerxes is a few seconds of longitude ahead of true position."

"That's dreadful, Mr. Grego!" Stenson was deeply shocked. "I must adjust that the first thing tomorrow. I should have called to check on it long ago, but you know how it is. So many things to do, and so little time."

"I find the same trouble myself, Mr. Stenson." They chatted for a while, and then Stenson apologized for taking up so much of Mr. Grego's valuable time. What he meant was that his own time, just as valuable to him, was wasting. After the screen blanked, Grego sat looking at it for a moment, wishing he had a hundred men like Henry Stenson in his own organization. Just men with Stenson's brains and character; wishing for a hundred instrument makers with Stenson's skills would have been unreasonable, even for wishing. There was only one Henry Stenson, just as there had been only one Antonio Stradivari. Why a man

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Another variation of the contact theme of this series, the very question of sapience being discussed in a setting of conflicts and legal battles. Would have been a bit boring without the surprise at the end.
I am a bibliophile. I read voraciously; but, I did not discover science fiction and some types of fantasy until I was over thirty and my oldest child was a teen ager (just barely.) I truly enjoyed this book. I liked the way the people wwere developed; especialy the fuzzies.