Star Trek, Battkstar GalaCtica, V-the "reboot" of franchises has become part of the sfplaybook. Yet while it's one thing for corporations to hire a creative team to retool a property, it's quite another for one author to overhaul the world and characters of a past master. That's exactly what best-selling sf icon and prominent blogger John Scalzi has done with his latest novel, Fuzzy Nation (see review, LJ 4/15/11, p. 87), rewriting the characters and situations in H. Beam Piper's 1962 Hugo-nominated Little Fuzzy and giving them a contemporary spin. In a recent interview, Scalzi told L/that his efforts were in part an act of fan fiction, highlighting sfs debt to Piper. "Part of doing this was not only to have fun with the story but also to refocus attention on a writer who was important," says Scalzi. "Piper has several books that are acknowledged classics in the field, and yet they've fallen off the radar."
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