This is an enjoyable read, simple good guys vs bad guys BUT set in a distant future on a distant world. Basically, a pioneer on another planet discovers a 2 ft creature that seems pretty darn smart. The company that owns the planet wants to keep it's monopoly and not turn it over to the natives. (read one of the formal reviews for a better plot line)
Reading this in 2011 it's fun to see what an author was predicting to happen technology-wise and find he got some of it right! And some of it....they couldn't even imagine. This is in the Heinlein/Asimov/Clarke genre where men are men and women have equal status-an alien concept at the time. And there are alien races and spaceships of oourse. With lots of "tech" thrown in to be exotic for the time.
The other books in this series are good as well as the author's other books. Several authors have done a good job expanding the Little Fuzzy universe. I still feel sad that H. Beam Piper took his own life and didn't get to witness first hand the technology that has become in our world. Though, who knows, maybe he has!
Reading this in 2011 it's fun to see what an author was predicting to happen technology-wise and find he got some of it right! And some of it....they couldn't even imagine. This is in the Heinlein/Asimov/Clarke genre where men are men and women have equal status-an alien concept at the time. And there are alien races and spaceships of oourse. With lots of "tech" thrown in to be exotic for the time.
The other books in this series are good as well as the author's other books. Several authors have done a good job expanding the Little Fuzzy universe. I still feel sad that H. Beam Piper took his own life and didn't get to witness first hand the technology that has become in our world. Though, who knows, maybe he has!
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