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Gleanings from
Fuzzy Sapiens by H. Beam Piper
(First published as The Other Human Race, Avon 1964. All citations here from Ace 1976 edition.)
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Summary
Distance between Zarathustra and
Terra is five-hundred light-years, approximately six months hyperspace travel
time. (pp. 6, 231) These data agree with
Little Fuzzy (LF). Gimli, the closest inhabited planet, is two
months away, or approximately 170 light-years. (pp. 120, 136) Marduk, apparently the closest major world,
is three months away, or approximately 250 light-years. (pp. 150, 193)
The story takes place in about 654, AE. (p. 85). Holloway, born in 580, left Terra in about 614. (pp. 8-9, 85) LF says Holloway came to Zarathustra in 644. Grego came to Zarathustra five years before Holloway, in 639. (p. 42) According to LF, Zarathustra was settled in 626, and sunstones discovered in 648.
Fuzzies are the ninth sapient species encountered by Terrans. (pp. 12, 19). The eight other species include native races on Loki, Gimli, Thor, Yggdrasil, Shesha, Uller and Hathor. (pp. 33, 103, 127, 150, 189) The other sapient species is most likely the Freyans.
The Third World War occurred sometime in the First Century, AE. (p. 137). Terra suffered extensive nuclear damage during the Third and Forth World Wars, which led to the formation of the First Terran Federation. (p. 137). Damage was so extensive that civilization in the Northern Hemisphere must have nearly been extinguished. (pp. 96-97)
The story takes place in about 654, AE. (p. 85). Holloway, born in 580, left Terra in about 614. (pp. 8-9, 85) LF says Holloway came to Zarathustra in 644. Grego came to Zarathustra five years before Holloway, in 639. (p. 42) According to LF, Zarathustra was settled in 626, and sunstones discovered in 648.
Fuzzies are the ninth sapient species encountered by Terrans. (pp. 12, 19). The eight other species include native races on Loki, Gimli, Thor, Yggdrasil, Shesha, Uller and Hathor. (pp. 33, 103, 127, 150, 189) The other sapient species is most likely the Freyans.
The Third World War occurred sometime in the First Century, AE. (p. 137). Terra suffered extensive nuclear damage during the Third and Forth World Wars, which led to the formation of the First Terran Federation. (p. 137). Damage was so extensive that civilization in the Northern Hemisphere must have nearly been extinguished. (pp. 96-97)
Specific citations
"the City of Malverton; she’s spacing out from Darius today." (p. 2)
". . . the Terran market quotation, as of six months ago. . . ." (p. 6)
". . . Zarathustra Company, which represented thousands of stockholders, including . . . Terra-Baldur-Marduk Spacelines, and Interstellar Explorations, Ltd., and the Banking Cartel." (p. 7)
"Forty years ago, [Holloway] had left Terra. . . ." (p 8-9)
". . . the eight other sapient races discovered since Terrans had gone out to the stars. " (p. 12)
". . . his major's single star had quite recently been replaced a first lieutenant's double bars . . . his uniform was Colonial Constabulary." (p. 15)
". . . a new race of sapient beings; why, it was only the ninth time that had happened in the five centuries since the first Terran starship left the Sol System." (p. 19)
". . . a Native Cases Court, like the ones on Loki and Gimli and Thor." (p. 33)
"And Company House . . . had been built twelve years ago, three years after [Grego] came to Zarathustra. . . ." (p. 42)
". . . the Terra-Baldur-Marduk liner City of Kapstaad, which would be getting in a week." (p. 63)
". . . Navy Intelligence . . . or Colonial Office Investigative Bureau. . . ." (p. 77)
Holloway is "[s]eventy-four . . . born in 580 . . . [and] couldn't even estimate how much to allow for on time-differential for hyperspace trips." (p. 85)
". . . we're speaking Lingua Terra . . . [an] indiscriminate mixture of English, Spanish, Portuguese and Afrikaans, mostly English." (pp. 96-97)
". . . van Riebeek's theory that Fuzzies were living fossils, the sole survivors of a large and otherwise extinct order of Zarathustran primates." (p. 102)
Sapient beings "on planets like Loki or Thor or Yggdrasil; on Shesha or Uller. . . ." (p. 103)
". . . a Year-End Holidays shopping crowd. . . ." (p. 114)
". . . it would be four months till any [Extee Three] could get in from the nearest Federation planet." (p. 120)
". . . in the three months since we've been checking on . . . Baby Fuzzy . . . ." (p. 122)
". . . this infamous space-transport monopoly of the Company's. . . ." (pp. 123-24)
". . . on Thor; clans that'd be shooting us on sight one season would be our bosom friends the next, and planning to double-cross us the one after." (p. 127)
". . . Terra, Odin, Freya, Marduk, Aton, Baldur, planets like that." (pp. 135-36)
"In a month, word will have gotten to Gimli; that's the nearest planet, and in two months a ship can get here from there." (p. 136)
". . . nuclear bomb radiations on Terra during and after the Third and Fourth World Wars, at the beginning of the First Federation." (p. 137)
"First Century, between the Second and Third World Wars." (p. 137)
". . . wheat from the [Argentine] pampas and from the Mississippi Valley in North America." (p. 143)
". . . a temporary shortage which will be relieved in about six months, when Extee Three begins coming in from Marduk." (p. 150)
". . . Cocktail Hour. The natives on planets like Loki and Gimli and Thor and even Shesha and Uller thought it was a religious observance." (p. 150)
". . . on Marduk. There are a number of shipping companies who would like to get in here in competition with Terra-Baldur-Marduk Spacelines, and there are quite a few import-export houses who would like to trade on Zarathustra in competition with CZC." (p. 180)
"A lot of the older planets are beginning to overpopulate, and there's never room enough for everyone on Terra." (pp. 181-82)
"[When Terrans] find something valuable on [a native reservation]--gold on Loki, platinum on Thor, vanadium and wolfram on Hathor, nitrates on Yggdrasil, uranium on Gimli . . . the natives get shoved off onto another reservation, where there isn't anything anybody wants, and finally they just get shoved off, period." (p. 189)
"Look how the power interests tried to suppress the discovery of direct conversion of nuclear energy to electric current, back in the First Century. Look how they tried to suppress the Abbot Drive." (p. 193)
". . . in six months the off-planet immigrants'll start coming in." (p. 193)
". . . labor unions organized by outsiders had been frowned upon by the company. . . ." (p. 197)
"Terra's five hundred light-years, six months ship-time away." (p. 231)
". . . the Terran market quotation, as of six months ago. . . ." (p. 6)
". . . Zarathustra Company, which represented thousands of stockholders, including . . . Terra-Baldur-Marduk Spacelines, and Interstellar Explorations, Ltd., and the Banking Cartel." (p. 7)
"Forty years ago, [Holloway] had left Terra. . . ." (p 8-9)
". . . the eight other sapient races discovered since Terrans had gone out to the stars. " (p. 12)
". . . his major's single star had quite recently been replaced a first lieutenant's double bars . . . his uniform was Colonial Constabulary." (p. 15)
". . . a new race of sapient beings; why, it was only the ninth time that had happened in the five centuries since the first Terran starship left the Sol System." (p. 19)
". . . a Native Cases Court, like the ones on Loki and Gimli and Thor." (p. 33)
"And Company House . . . had been built twelve years ago, three years after [Grego] came to Zarathustra. . . ." (p. 42)
". . . the Terra-Baldur-Marduk liner City of Kapstaad, which would be getting in a week." (p. 63)
". . . Navy Intelligence . . . or Colonial Office Investigative Bureau. . . ." (p. 77)
Holloway is "[s]eventy-four . . . born in 580 . . . [and] couldn't even estimate how much to allow for on time-differential for hyperspace trips." (p. 85)
". . . we're speaking Lingua Terra . . . [an] indiscriminate mixture of English, Spanish, Portuguese and Afrikaans, mostly English." (pp. 96-97)
". . . van Riebeek's theory that Fuzzies were living fossils, the sole survivors of a large and otherwise extinct order of Zarathustran primates." (p. 102)
Sapient beings "on planets like Loki or Thor or Yggdrasil; on Shesha or Uller. . . ." (p. 103)
". . . a Year-End Holidays shopping crowd. . . ." (p. 114)
". . . it would be four months till any [Extee Three] could get in from the nearest Federation planet." (p. 120)
". . . in the three months since we've been checking on . . . Baby Fuzzy . . . ." (p. 122)
". . . this infamous space-transport monopoly of the Company's. . . ." (pp. 123-24)
". . . on Thor; clans that'd be shooting us on sight one season would be our bosom friends the next, and planning to double-cross us the one after." (p. 127)
". . . Terra, Odin, Freya, Marduk, Aton, Baldur, planets like that." (pp. 135-36)
"In a month, word will have gotten to Gimli; that's the nearest planet, and in two months a ship can get here from there." (p. 136)
". . . nuclear bomb radiations on Terra during and after the Third and Fourth World Wars, at the beginning of the First Federation." (p. 137)
"First Century, between the Second and Third World Wars." (p. 137)
". . . wheat from the [Argentine] pampas and from the Mississippi Valley in North America." (p. 143)
". . . a temporary shortage which will be relieved in about six months, when Extee Three begins coming in from Marduk." (p. 150)
". . . Cocktail Hour. The natives on planets like Loki and Gimli and Thor and even Shesha and Uller thought it was a religious observance." (p. 150)
". . . on Marduk. There are a number of shipping companies who would like to get in here in competition with Terra-Baldur-Marduk Spacelines, and there are quite a few import-export houses who would like to trade on Zarathustra in competition with CZC." (p. 180)
"A lot of the older planets are beginning to overpopulate, and there's never room enough for everyone on Terra." (pp. 181-82)
"[When Terrans] find something valuable on [a native reservation]--gold on Loki, platinum on Thor, vanadium and wolfram on Hathor, nitrates on Yggdrasil, uranium on Gimli . . . the natives get shoved off onto another reservation, where there isn't anything anybody wants, and finally they just get shoved off, period." (p. 189)
"Look how the power interests tried to suppress the discovery of direct conversion of nuclear energy to electric current, back in the First Century. Look how they tried to suppress the Abbot Drive." (p. 193)
". . . in six months the off-planet immigrants'll start coming in." (p. 193)
". . . labor unions organized by outsiders had been frowned upon by the company. . . ." (p. 197)
"Terra's five hundred light-years, six months ship-time away." (p. 231)