Two Legends of SF Team Up! Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
present the Hokas, teddy-bear-like aliens who take the stories of Earth
very seriously, in this classic of humorous SF.
When a human thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, it's time to get out a
straightjacket. But when a Hoka thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, you'd
better believe it! Particularly since there'll be hundreds of other
Hokas around who know for a fact that they're the French Army, mon
amis, even if they're on another planet lightyears away from Earth, and
the forces they're facing aren't the British but very nasty warlike
aliens who by all reason should be expected to make mincemeat out of the
Hokas.
But when it comes to Hokas, reason does not compute. These friendly,
fuzzy aliens who resemble large teddy bears have a very vivid
imagination and have never quite grasped the difference between human
fiction and reality, or (in the present case), between past history and
the much later and rather different present. Always bet on the Hokas.
Even when a young lad and his Hoka tutor find themselves stuck on a
planet where they seem to be scheduled to fulfill and ancient (and
lethal!) prophesy that neither of them had ever heard of until now.
Hokas as usual find that reality is merely optional and the good
guys--and bears--always win, quicker than you can say HOKAS POKAS!
About Poul Anderson:
"One of science fiction's authentic geniuses."-Chicago Sun-Times
"Anderson fuses elegiac prose and a sweeping vision of man's
technological future..."-Booklist
"One of science fiction's giants."-Arthur C. Clarke
About Gordon R. Dickson:
"Dickson is one of SF's standard-bearers."--Publishers Weekly
"Dickson has a true mastery of pacing and fine understanding of human
beings."--Seattle Post Intelligencer
"A masterful science fiction writer."--Milwaukee Journal
