H Beam Piper

Little Fuzzy H Beam Piper

The planet Zarathustra is listed as uninhabited - which means that the entire planet can be owned by a corporation. That owner is the rich and happy Zarathustra Company - rich and happy, that is, until a prospector named Jack Holloway comes across undocumented species - a tiny, golden-furred little biped that he dubs 'Little Fuzzy.' Not only are the Little Fuzzies cute, they're bright too - in fact, they may be sapient as people are ... and that means everything the Zarathustra company owns on this world is at stake...