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Fuzzy Nation is told from the perspective of Jack Holloway, who’s stationed on another planet helping to survey it for raw materials. At the beginning of the book, he finds a large deposit of a valuable resource. The story that follows features legal intrigue, humor, a dog that can detonate explosives on command, and some very clever, fuzzy, native creatures who invite themselves into Jack’s house and make themselves at home.

I enjoyed this a great deal. It took me a chapter or two to get into it, but I was hooked once the fuzzies showed up. Jack was a fun character. He’s mostly a jerk with questionable motives, but he’s not all bad and I couldn’t help liking him. He was fun to read about and his attitude made me laugh. This story is a reboot of a story originally published by H. Beam Piper back in the 60’s. I didn’t have any familiarity with the original whatsoever and didn’t feel like I missed out on anything.

It maybe wasn’t the world’s most nuanced plot. There were some twists but nothing complicated, and some of the antagonists were one-dimensional. Jack is a little too clever and on top of things to be entirely believable. The messages aren’t particularly subtle, but the reader wasn’t beaten over the head with them either. Still, it may not have been amazing literature, but it was a whole lot of fun to read. Well, except for one really painful scene. It’s not all light-hearted fun.