"John Scalzi's 'Fuzzy Nation'" Topic

Found this on the shelf at Barnes & Nobles yesterday. At first I was intrigued. I'm a fan of both Scalzi's work and Piper's fuzzy series. A new Fuzzy novel could be a good thing!

The I read the description.

"A re-imagining of Piper's 'Little Fuzzy' in much the same way as the recent rebooting of the Star Trek franchise.

Ugh.

I read 'Fuzzy Bones' a couple of years ago and have concluded I don't want to read a retread that messes with classic characters and stories.

Has anyone read it? Would you recommend the book to others that have read most of Piper's original works?

I read it and enjoyed it. However, I have not read the original Piper. Still, Scalzi published it with the permission of the Piper estate, and it got good reviews, including some from Piper fans.

I bought it without realizing it was a re-imagining, but I enjoyed it. It doesn't make me want to go and re-read Piper's originals, but I'd pick up any other Scalzi follow-ups set in the same universe.

It's its own things is what I'm saying.

Redshirts was much better.

I try to avoid old re-re-re releases as I usually read the original long ago anyway. Not big on "what does it mean to be "human" plots" either. Dr. Who plots more than fill that niche.

@desertscrb Here's the original Little Fuzzy right here gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

Fuzzy Bones wasn't that bad.

It's a reboot of of Little Fuzzy, which, to be honest, hasn't aged all that well.

I liked it, to the extent I wish the estate would let Mr. Scalzi do a reboot of all of Piper's TFH series.

And hell, the Paratime series too.