I don't know that I'd rec Golden Dream on its own but it's really interesting in the context of the Little Fuzzy phenomenon / fanficness and it's not bad!
(I have a copy of Fuzzy Nation! I will read it someday. It's just that normally new Little Fuzzy "canon" would have gotten me reading it immediately - I liked the original a lot and I am so fascinated by the fact that this book that even a lot of SF fans have never heard of somehow still has published tie-ins by four other authors and a picture-book adaptation and probably some other stuff.)
(I mean I shouldn't be surprised it's got a persistent underground fandom because it's basically about soulbonding with furries that srs sf fans of srs hard sf for srs mens can pretend is totally classic hard SF totally. BUT STILL.)
(And that's kind of why I don't, hmm, I don't think too hard about the questions of the Fuzzies' being patronized? Because they serve EXACTLY the same story role as Pernese dragons or Manticoran treecats or Valdemaran Companions or Iskryne trellwolves, of alien species that inexpicably want nothing more in life except to keep humans from ever being lonely. That appears to be something humans want in their stories. I think more interesting to me is why none of the other "companion animal" universes have even explicitly posed the questions of legality and equality like Piper does.)
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(I have a copy of Fuzzy Nation! I will read it someday. It's just that normally new Little Fuzzy "canon" would have gotten me reading it immediately - I liked the original a lot and I am so fascinated by the fact that this book that even a lot of SF fans have never heard of somehow still has published tie-ins by four other authors and a picture-book adaptation and probably some other stuff.)
(I mean I shouldn't be surprised it's got a persistent underground fandom because it's basically about soulbonding with furries that srs sf fans of srs hard sf for srs mens can pretend is totally classic hard SF totally. BUT STILL.)
(And that's kind of why I don't, hmm, I don't think too hard about the questions of the Fuzzies' being patronized? Because they serve EXACTLY the same story role as Pernese dragons or Manticoran treecats or Valdemaran Companions or Iskryne trellwolves, of alien species that inexpicably want nothing more in life except to keep humans from ever being lonely. That appears to be something humans want in their stories. I think more interesting to me is why none of the other "companion animal" universes have even explicitly posed the questions of legality and equality like Piper does.)
(Except Temeraire of course.)
(The picture book is pretty good by the way.)