![]() ![]() Piper wasn't big on white-knuckle action and drama in these piquant and happy little tales, but he does provide his readers with a commendable dose of both in this short book's second half. Yet its best scenes are among the best in the whole trilogy. As it stands, Fuzzies and Other People takes even more time getting around to its story than Fuzzy Sapiens. Why Piper buried this one in a trunk is a question that may be known to his closest friends or his biographer, but I can only speculate, mere reviewer that I am. But Fuzzies and Other People at least provides a more or less complete trilogy, and there's no reason he couldn't have gone on from here. ![]() Whether Piper had any designs to continue telling Fuzzy stories after this one, we'll never know. Otherwise I guess they'd simply attach a Post-It to their wills saying "By the way, check the trunk!" Some writers, I suppose, have a flair for the dramatic even in death. Beam Piper's death and the publication of Fuzzy Sapiens, his long-rumored third Fuzzy novel, the manuscript for which had been thought lost, turned up in one of those improbable found-in-an-old-trunk scenarios. ![]()
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