‘Hell, yes, We’ll do “Little Fuzzy and the Jewels of Opar ” “Little Fuzzy and the Golden Lion” and “Little Fuzzy at the Earth’s Core”… How’s your drink? I’ll get us a refill.’īut, at this point, Piper hadn’t been a hobby writer for many years. We laughed about it a lot, while Beam struggled to find a decent plot for the sequel. Space Viking, in my not so humble opinion, stands as one of the best novels Beam ever wrote-and just what the hell did the book have to do with the Fuzzy thing? If Janet Wood thought that Piper was just going to sit in Williamsport and crank out Little Fuzzy adventures just for Avon, she had another think coming. Carr’s Typewriter Killer, Mike Knerr, Piper’s friend and would-be biographer, said, On February 14, 1962, Piper got word that Janet Wood at Avon Books wanted a sequel to Little Fuzzy. Beam’s plan was to write one book, or short story, in each century of his future history, not write three bloody Fuzzy novels, including one he could never sell. It was those Fuzzy books that killed him! They got his hopes up, then dashed them.
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