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| "As with all SF, Fuzzy Nation reveals more about the present year of 2011 than it does about some probable future, just as Little Fuzzy disclosed the essence of 1962." | ||
| — Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review |
Since Piper's untimely death, the publishers who held the copyrights to his stories and novels have authorized several sequels or other works related to Piper's work. In addition to the Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen sequel Great Kings' War by Roland Green and John F. Carr these have included 1981's Fuzzy Bones by William Tuning and 1982's Golden Dream by Ardath Mayhar, sequels to Piper's first two Fuzzy novels commissioned by the publishers prior to the discovery of Piper's own third, previously unpublished novel in the Fuzzy trilogy Fuzzies and Other People published in 1984.
Michael Kurland was commissioned by Piper's copyright holders to complete an unfinished Piper manuscript which was published in 1982 as First Cycle. The Adventures of Little Fuzzy, a children's version of Piper's original Little Fuzzy extensively illustrated by Michael Whelan, was published in 1983. More recently, John Scalzi has published an officially-sanction "reboot" of Little Fuzzy titled Fuzzy Nation.
Michael Kurland was commissioned by Piper's copyright holders to complete an unfinished Piper manuscript which was published in 1982 as First Cycle. The Adventures of Little Fuzzy, a children's version of Piper's original Little Fuzzy extensively illustrated by Michael Whelan, was published in 1983. More recently, John Scalzi has published an officially-sanction "reboot" of Little Fuzzy titled Fuzzy Nation.
 
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Fuzzy Bones, William Tuning, New York: Ace, 1981, with cover illustration by Michael Whelan.
Tuning's sequel to Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens was commissioned prior to the discovery of Piper's unifinished third Fuzzy novel Fuzzies and Other People. |
 
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Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey, Ardath Mayhar, New York: Ace, 1982, with cover illustration by Michael Whelan.
Like Tuning's Fuzzy Bones, Mayhar's sequel to Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens was commissioned prior to the discovery of Piper's unifinished manuscript of Fuzzies and Other People. It's story is told from the point of view of the Fuzzies. |
 
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First Cycle, H. Beam Piper and Michael Kurland, New York: Ace, 1982 (published posthumously), with uncredited cover illustration.
This novel, completed by Kurland from an unfinished manuscript by Piper, ostensibly takes place in Piper's Terro-human Future History setting but several inconsistencies—and the absence of any references to events depicted here in other Future History yarns—suggests it's more appropriately considered as a stand-alone work. |
 
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The Adventures of Little Fuzzy, Benson Parker, New York: Platt & Munk, 1983, with illustrations by Michael Whelan and David Wenzel.
A retelling of Little Fuzzy for children, extensively illustrated, with assistance from David Wenzel, by Michael Whelan who illustrated the covers of most of the Ace editions of Piper's works published in the late 1970s and 1980s. |
 
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Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi, New York: Tor (Macmillan), 2011, with cover illustration by Kekai Kotaki.
A "reboot" of Little Fuzzy updated with contemporary sensibilities which retains the plotline of the original novel but in a setting which is markedly distinct from the Terro-human Future History of Piper's original. |
