On the planet Zarathustra, a sunstone prospector named Jack Holloway
receives a strange guest at his door one night - a mysterious, small,
fuzzy alien - which promptly makes itself at home. Before long, "Little
Fuzzy's" whole family joins him. Hardened Jack is transformed into their
"pappy" and chief protector, and his life is forever changed. The
creatures, however, turn out to be quite intelligent. Sapient life on
Zarathustra, however, would be disastrous; this leads Jack and his
friends on a quest to discover the answer. The quest becomes a matter of
urgency when the company that has been growing rich from mining the
planet decides to exterminate the Fuzzies to protect their contract.
What follows is murder, deceit, kidnapping and intrigue at its best.