{"id":12183,"date":"2018-04-16T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T23:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2018-04-21T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T14:25:10","slug":"fuzzy-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/fuzzy-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuzzy Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He paused at the cabin door and pointed to Baby Fuzzy, who now appeared to be dozing lightly. &#8216;If <strong>that<\/strong> is a person, then this becomes a Class Three-a planet &#8212; a planet with native sapient life &#8212; and Zara Corp&#8217;s E and E charter is suspended&#8230; No more mining, no more drilling, no more harvesting.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuzzy Nation<\/strong> by John Scalzi, published in 2011<\/p>\n<p>Jack Holloway is doing some excavating on Zara XXIII when he finds some priceless sunstones. He cleverly renegotiates his contract to get a higher percentage of the profits. When he returns home he finds a large cat-like creature in his house. He thinks they might make good pets, but they&#8217;re smarter than he realizes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a reboot of <strong>Little Fuzzy<\/strong> by H. Beam Piper, which I haven&#8217;t read.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny and clever, a bit reminiscent of an Isaac Asimov novel.<\/p>\n<p>I liked it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 10 books by Scalzi, and I will probably read all the ones he writes. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/lock-in\/\"><strong>Lock In<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;He paused at the cabin door and pointed to Baby Fuzzy, who now appeared to be dozing lightly. &#8216;If that is a person, then this becomes a Class Three-a planet &#8212; a planet with native sapient life &#8212; and Zara Corp&#8217;s E and E charter is suspended&#8230; No more mining, no more drilling, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-12183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12193,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions\/12193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}