Little Fuzzy itself is in the public domain, but its sequels are still under copyright. How can you do this? Aren’t there copyright issues involved? I hope that when people get done with Fuzzy Nation they’ll pick up Little Fuzzy, and compare and contrast the two approaches to the same story.

While Fuzzy Nation is a “reboot” of Little Fuzzy, the idea behind it is not to replace the original, but to celebrate it and hopefully draw new readers to it and to other work by Piper. And while the original novel is still, as they say, a “cracking good tale,” I thought there was an opportunity to revisit the story and put a new spin on it to make it approachable to people who had not read the original or did not know about Piper, and also to give fans of the original the fun of seeing some old friends in new settings. It’s a good story and he’s a very good story teller Little Fuzzy wasn’t nominated for a Hugo on accident, you know. So I did it.īecause I am a huge fan of the original novel and of H.

So I thought, hey, this seems like it could be a fun thing to do. Science fiction TV and movie series are rebooted all the time - see Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek for recent examples of this - but I can’t think of a significant, original universe in science fiction literature in which this has been done, at least, not by someone who is not the original author. Beam Piper established in Little Fuzzy and its sequels.īecause as far as I know it’s never been done before. The novel doesn’t follow on from the events of Little Fuzzy it’s a new interpretation of that first story and a break from the continuity that H. Nope, I mean a reboot, as in, I took the original plot and characters of Little Fuzzy and wrote an entirely new story from and with them. It’s a novel, and it’s called Fuzzy Nation, and it’s a reboot of the Hugo-nominated 1962 science fiction novel Little Fuzzy, by H. So, that Super Secret Thing That I Cannot Tell You About? I can tell you about it now.

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