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Originally Posted by Heather Parker
Anyone read the Little Fuzzy books by H Beam Piper? I loved these although I don't know if they were ever well known. I always thought they were similar to some of the earlier Heinlein books and definitely worth reading if you enjoy that kind of sci-fi. The little Fuzzies were awfully cute...
Heather
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They were well known in SF circles. Piper was a tragic case: he committed suicide in the early 60's. His agent had been keeping Piper's finances in his head. When he died unexpectedly, it threw Piper's affairs into chaos. He was unwilling to accept charity, even though many folks would have rallied to help, and chose to end his life. Ironically, at the tiome he died, John W. Campbell was trying to find him because he'd bought a Piper story for Analog Magazine and wanted to get him a check.
The manuscript for the third Fuzzy novel. "Fuzzies and Other People", was eventually found and published long after Piper's death.. What never did surface were the notebooks where Piper was keeping track of his worlds. Piper was one of the first to write in a continuing setting with a coherent history. Two, in fact, as his works were mostly in the Terran Federation series (_Little Fuzzy_, among others) and the Paratime Police series (_Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen_ and others).
All save the Lord Kalvan volume have lapsed into the public domain, and HarryT has a couple of compilation volumes posted in MobileRead's ebook library for download.
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Dennis