Amazon.com description: Product Description: H Beam Piper was a 20th century science fiction writer. He is best known for his Terro-Human Future History series and a series of Paratime alternate history tales. The theme in many of PiperŽs books is best seen in Uller Uprising. Piper wrote about the past repeating itself and past events having a direct effect on the future. Little Fuzzy is considered to be PiperŽs best work. Fenris is an unusual planet that rotates only four times in its travel around the sun. With each "day" lasting for an entire season Fenris suffers from harsh storms forcing settlement underground and underwater. Young newspaper reporter Walt Boyd gets involved in the efforts of the local Monster Hunters who hunt the large sea creatures as a way of breaking the monopoly that controls the planetary market.