Dad and his Weird Friends discussion

Just to spur some discussion, I'll be linking to a few recent book reviews over on Cinema Fromage!

First up, "Fuzzy Nation" by John Scalzi

A few years back I was introduced to John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” via word of mouth. I believe the exchange with a close science fiction nerd friend went something like, “Dude, you have to read this book! It’s like “Star Ship Troopers” but with old people and better!” It’s no surprise to anybody that’s read this blog that I’m a sucker for anything genre that somebody suggests to me and Scalzi’s brand of science fiction was no exception. I ate his books up! I plowed through the “Old Man’s War” series but sadly, I ran out and was left without any Scalzi books to read. It wasn’t too long afterwards that he started talking about a new venture on his Whatever blog called “Fuzzy Nation”, a modern updating of the H. Beam Piper original and I set back to wait for him to finish up.

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Here's another book I'd be up for discussing - I've read Piper's "Little Fuzzy" & thought Scalzi did a pretty great re-imagining/homage.

Nice! I've been meaning to dig up "Little Fuzzy" as I LOVED this version!

Scalzi's pretty great all around, ready for another new book from him!

Have seen this one around but never picked it up.

Here's a free e-book version of H. Beam Piper's "Little Fuzzy": http://www.manybooks.net/titles/piper...

Thanks Tracey!

Cool! Thanks!

FYI - I found a freebie audiobook version of Little Fuzzy as well - listened to the first few mins & it's homebrew, but seems listenable

http://www.archive.org/details/Little...