Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little Fuzzy | 1962 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 2 | Fuzzy Sapiens | 1964 | Henry H. Beam Piper | N/A |
| 3 | Fuzzy Sapiens / The Other Human Race | 1964 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 4 | Fuzzy Bones | 1981 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 5 | Fuzzies and Other People | 1984 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 6 | Golden Dream | 1982 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 7 | Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey | 1982 | Henry H. Beam Piper | N/A |
| 8 | The Adventures of Little Fuzzy | 1983 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 9 | Fuzzy Ergo Sum | 2011 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 10 | Fuzzy Nation | 2011 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 11 | Caveat Fuzzy | 2012 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 12 | The Fuzzy Conundrum | 2016 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
| 13 | Fuzzy Logic | 2022 | Henry H. Beam Piper | Buy |
Little Fuzzy (1962) is one of the most charming first-contact stories in science fiction. Jack Holloway, a prospector on the planet Zarathustra, finds a small furry creature on his doorstep. These “Fuzzies” turn out to be friendly, curious, and possibly intelligent. The novel becomes a courtroom drama when the question of Fuzzy sapience threatens the charter of the Zarathustra Company, which controls the planet’s resources.
Piper wrote two sequels, Fuzzy Sapiens and the posthumously published Fuzzies and Other People (1984). Other authors later added to the series. William Tuning wrote Fuzzy Bones (1981), and Ardath Mayhar wrote Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey (1982). John Scalzi’s Fuzzy Nation (2011) is not a sequel but a complete retelling that brings the story’s ideas to modern readers. Wolfgang Diehr has written several additional Fuzzy novels continuing the original continuity.