But everything changes when Holloway discovers the Fuzzies, curious little humanoids that almost seem to have the power to reason. Piper’s novels follow the adventures of down-on-his-luck space prospector Jack Holloway, who’s been exploring the planet Zarathrustra - a Class III uninhabited world run for profit by mining magnate Victor Grego. I checked off my order form and put it back in the mail pronto, and impatiently waited for it to arrive. Not the kind of thing an impressionable teen could resist, and I didn’t even bother to try. Available exclusively through the club, it collects two long out-of-print paperbacks in a durable hardcover with a beautiful Michael Whelan cover, all for under 7 bucks.
Simak. The club specialized in low-cost reprints of popular SF and fantasy, ideal for a teen with little disposable income, and best of all, it occasionally produced magnificent omnibus editions of genre classics. I joined the SFBC at the age of 12 at the urging of my friend John MacMaster, who turned me on to science fiction by loaning me book club editions from many of its finest writers, including Frank Herbert and Clifford D. Beam Piper, Little Fuzzy (1962) and Fuzzy Sapiens (1964, also known as The Other Human Race), and was published by the Science Fiction Book Club in 1980. The Fuzzy Papers contains two novels by H. The Fuzzy Papers was one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and it’s one of the small handful of books that made me an SF reader for life.
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