<영어로 읽는 고전 _ 핸리 빔 파이퍼의 리틀퍼지>
"리틀 퍼지(Little Fuzzy)"는 H. 빔 파이퍼(H. Beam Piper)가 1962년에 처음 출판한 SF 소설로, 파이퍼가 처음 집필했고 나중에 그의 사후 다른 작가들에 의해 확장된 퍼지 시리즈의 첫 번째 책이다. 이 이야기는 무인도로 분류되어 행성에서 귀중한 자원인 일석을 채굴해 온 차타드 차라투스트라 회사(Chartered Zarathustra Company)에 의해 식민지화 및 착취가 허용되는 가상의 행성 차라투스트라를 배경으로 합하고 있다.
소설의 주요 주제는 지능을 정의하는 것과 다른 지능 있는 종에 대한 인간의 책임을 정의하는 윤리적, 법적 문제를 중심으로 전개된다. 이 이야기는 등장인물들이 퍼지 가족의 지위를 놓고 논쟁하고 투쟁하는 가운데 기업의 탐욕, 환경 보존, 정의 추구를 탐구하고 있다.


"Little Fuzzy" is a science fiction novel first published in 1962 by H. Beam Piper, the first in the Fuzzy series originally written by Piper and later expanded by other authors after his death. It's a book. The story is set on the fictional planet Zarathustra, which has been classified as uninhabited and allowed to be colonized and exploited by the Chartered Zarathustra Company, which has been mining the planet for its precious resource, agate.
The main themes of the novel revolve around the ethical and legal issues of defining intelligence and human responsibility toward other intelligent species. The story explores corporate greed, environmental conservation, and the pursuit of justice as the characters argue and struggle for status in the Fudge family.

요약
줄거리는 태양석 탐사자인 잭 홀로웨이(Jack Holloway)가 "리틀 퍼지(Little Fuzzy)"라는 이름의 작고 털복숭이이며 지능이 있는 생물을 발견하면서 시작된다. 퍼지의 존재는 지성 있는 원주민의 존재가 행성의 지위와 자원에 대한 회사의 독점적 권리를 변화시킬 것이기 때문에 차라투스트라를 무인으로 분류하는 데 도전하는데….

Summary
The plot begins when sunstone explorer Jack Holloway discovers a small, furry, intelligent creature named "Little Fuzzy." The existence of the Purge challenges the classification of Zarathustra as uninhabited, as the presence of intelligent natives would change the status of the planet and the Corporation's exclusive rights to its resources... .

Contents

CHAPTER I. Jack Holloway found himself squinting, the orange sun full in his eyes.
CHAPTER II. Jack Holloway landed the manipulator in front of the cluster of prefab huts.
CHAPTER III. He started awake, rubbed his eyes and looked at the clock.
CHAPTER IV. The Fuzzies took the manipulator quite calmly the next morning.
CHAPTER V. Victor Grego crushed out his cigarette slowly and deliberately.
CHAPTER VI. The recorded voice ceased; for a moment the record player hummed voicelessly.
CHAPTER VII. Tuesday dawned hot and windless, a scarlet sun coming up in a hard, brassy sky.
CHAPTER VIII. Jack Holloway had been out on bail before, but never for quite so much.
CHAPTER IX. Jack Holloway saw Little Fuzzy eying the pipe
CHAPTER X. Colonial Marshal Max Fane was as heavy as Gus Brannhard
CHAPTER XI. The two lawyers had risen hastily when Chief Justice Pendarvis entered
CHAPTER XII. Ben Rainsford went back to Beta Continent,
CHAPTER XIII. The management of the Hotel Mallory appeared to have undergone
CHAPTER XIV. They walked together, Frederic and Claudette Pendarvis,
CHAPTER XV. Ernst Mallin shrank, as though trying to pull himself into himself,
CHAPTER XVI. They stopped whispering at the door,
CHAPTER XVII. Ruth Ortheris sipped at the tart, cold cocktail.