#108 in Science fiction
Fuzzy Nation
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Our view
“Fuzzy Nation” is a light, funny reworking of H. Beam Piper’s “Little Fuzzy” that still finishes on real feeling. Scalzi raises serious questions and handles them with an easy hand, never as a lecture, and readers repeatedly call the book plain fun. Some need half the story before they warm to the main character. The 1962 original is not required reading.
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About the book
Fuzzy Nation is a 2011 novel by John Scalzi, described as a reboot of H. Beam Piper's 1962 novel Little Fuzzy.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 334 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 69% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 22 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 312 | 93% |
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