This is a dual book combining Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens, and though I have read it several times, my memory, specifically is a little fuzzy. Charming, heart-warming are keywords that I can attribute to these tales. It deals with our human expansion to the stars and our encountering those little green martians we have always expected. Accept they are not what we have thought.

That have not always been there in their UFO's spying on us, or are part of a xenocidal race that wants our extinction. If anything man wants to see the end of the alien. Perhaps bleeding heart liberals would be the thought of the defender of the Fuzzy, but Piper writes of Fuzzy in such a way as to make then an endearing race. Part little child, part puppy dog, if my memory is correct.

The conflict is that if there are alien intelligences out there, who owns that world. We have see Cherryh look at this from a distance in Downbelow Station, and the same with Weber in On Basilisk Station, but those books were not focused on the thought of someone speaking up for that Alien's rights and ensuring that they are protected. That is the plot line here. We have a company world that wants to exploit the world, we have a native intelligence that needs to be defended working within the system, but unable to articulate for themselves their defense. Hence a really great set of books that led to two additional authors writing books about them, and then years after Piper's death, a third tome being unearthed and published. ( )

This is a book I have always liked. I admit that part of that is possibly due to the fact that the aliens are adorable little two-foot-high Ewok-like critters. I also just enjoy the exploration of first contact between humans and the new alien race, and the study of the alien culture. I mean, how do you deal with an intelligent species that's approximately the size of a baby, and just as cute? ( )

This volume contains "Little Fuzzy" and "Fuzzy Sapiens". I absolutely love the Fuzzy books by Piper. They are the cutest things and one has to wonder if that is were Lucas got his idea for the Ewoks...These guys seem way smarter though. And what fun they can be. ( )