Fuzzies: Diehr books: Sequels to Scalzi or Piper? Jeff Zeitlin (02 Jul 2023 00:49 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fuzzies: Diehr books: Sequels to Scalzi or Piper? David Johnson (02 Jul 2023 01:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fuzzies: Diehr books: Sequels to Scalzi or Piper? Jeff Zeitlin (02 Jul 2023 02:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Fuzzies: Diehr books: Sequels to Scalzi or Piper? David Johnson (02 Jul 2023 06:35 UTC)

Re: [TML] Fuzzies: Diehr books: Sequels to Scalzi or Piper? Jeff Zeitlin 02 Jul 2023 02:08 UTC

On Sat, 1 Jul 2023 18:12:36 -0700, David Johnson - piperfan at zarthani.net
(via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote to Freelance Traveller:

>Hi Jeff.
>
>> Are these sequels to Piper's _Little Fuzzy_ and/or _Fuzzy Sapiens_, or to
>> Scalzi's less good _Fuzzy Nation_?
>
>Diehr's Fuzzy Ergo Sum <https://www.pequodpress.com/book_info.php?id=PP_12>
>and Caveat Fuzzy <https://www.pequodpress.com/book_info.php?id=PP_15> are
>follow-ons to Piper's original novels and would not fit well in the
>"alternate universe" of Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation. The same holds for The Fuzzy
>Conundrum <https://www.pequodpress.com/book_info.php?id=PP_27>, co-authored
>with John F. Carr.

Oooo! Need to grab a copy of Conundrum... Thanks for the headsup!

>All of Diehr's Fuzzy novels were published after Piper's original Little
>Fuzzy and The Other Human Race (aka Fuzzy Sapiens) were in the public
>domain.

I assume that they represent a moderate overlap with and divergence from
_Fuzzies and Other People_, then?

(Carr writes Piper well, although he doesn't _quite_ get all the nuances of
Piper's _Paratime_/_Lord Kalvan_ universe.)

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