Fuzzy Nation (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Jack Holloway: A contract prospector for ZaraCorp, formerly a lawyer on Earth.
• Carl: Jack's dog.
• Isabel Wangai: Jack's ex-girlfriend, and ZaraCorp's biologist.
• Mark Sullivan: Isabel's boyfriend, a lawyer for ZaraCorp
• Chad Bourne: Jack's ZaraCorp contractor rep.
• Papa Fuzzy: Leader of the fuzzies.
• Wheaton Aubrey VII: Heir-apparent to Zarathustra Corporation.
• Brad Landon: Aubrey's personal assistant.
• Joe Delise: ZaraCorp security goon.
• Janice Meyer: ZaraCorp's General Counsel on Zara XXIII.
• Mama Fuzzy: Member of the fuzzy family.
• Grandpa Fuzzy: Oldest fuzzy.
• Baby: Smallest of the fuzzy family
• Pinto: One of the Fuzzy family.
• Johan Gruber: Director of Exploitation for Zara XXIII.
• Judge Soltan: Local judge who presides over legal actions.
• Sam Hamilton: A contract prospector, killed by local fauna.
• Dr. Arnold Chen: ZaraCorp xenolinguist

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• “…with all due respect for your considerable skills and intellect, the fact of the matter is that you have absolutely no clue what it is I want out of this.”

  Jack Halloway

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• Sometimes in life you’re going to win and sometimes you’re going to lose. But just because you lose doesn’t mean the other guy needs to win.

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• Better to be a monkey and not be able to understand what’s been taken from you, than to be a man and be able to understand all too well—and be helpless to stop it.

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• “Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man who killed my child. Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.”

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• “I’m not a good man, Mark,” Holloway said. “But I was the right man.

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• “Well, life is like that sometimes,” Isabel said. “We learn things too late, and then we don’t get to use them.”

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• But everyone knows you need fireworks to make independence official.

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• But the two kept it in their metaphorical pants, at least when he was around.

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• “At first I was doing it for myself,” Holloway said, after a minute. “Because that’s what I had always done, and it always seemed to work for me. Then later, I was doing it because I was curious to see what could happen, and how well that would work out for me. And then finally I was doing it because I knew what had to happen, and I knew that I was the only one who could make it happen.”

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• “But sometimes it feels good to do the wrong thing.”

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• We’re lawyers, Mark. Lying is part of the skill set.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Zara XXIII
• Aubreytown

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. John Scalzi (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.6

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction
• Books › Literature & Fiction

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Galley Cat: This is a brief announcement of Fuzzy Nation, linking to two relevant blog entries by Scalzi.

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