(It wouldn't pass the Bechdel test, but there are actually quite a few women working) There are flying cars and video calling and enormous computers but also paper for all the business, cocktail parties, and those wacky fifties gender norms that some mistakenly call "traditional". Booze, smoking, and coffee have spread to all the worlds in 500 years. Reading old school science fiction is always fun: seeing what the author predicts and what they can't imagine. It's worth reading this book to bridge to the 3rd book, which deals with the events in this story and finally begins getting some humanity into the human characters, as well as letting the fuzzies have some dignity as sapient beings and not just "cute kids". And thus good vs evil is once again starkly black-and-white.
He was the boss bad guy in the first novel, but fuzzies are just so cute that he can be won over and become good. The book also suffered in the way it dramatically yet simplistically flipped Victor Grego's character. Fuzzies are cute and playful, yet primitive, so therefore they must be children.
Most of it comes across as quite boring, and it's during this book that one really begins to feel antagonistic towards the paternalistic and patronizing attitudes the humans have toward the fuzzies. There is, however, a distinct drop in story quality and in reader impact in this second book. A sequel that picks up the narrative immediately after the first book (as will the 3rd book in the series Fuzzies and Other People) - your best bet is to read these books together one after the other.
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