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Title: Earthman's Burden by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson ISBN: 0-380-47993-1 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: September, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $1.75

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Sentient Teddy Bears?
Comment: In a distant time, spaceman Alexander Jones crashes his ship on a planet...which just happens to be inhabited by a population of sentient...well...Teddy Bears. These creatures call themselves Hoka, and they have a rather peculiar culture. These Hokans possess an unparalleled imagination, and they evolve their culture around what they observe and learn.

For example, this book is actually a collection of short stories, and each story revolves around a cultural theme: In one, the Hokas act like American cowboys in the Old West, after reading Western paperbacks left by previous human visitors. In another, they create an English culture, complete with a Hokan Sherlock Holmes.

Our intrepid spaceman, Alexander Jones, becomes enamored with these creatures (although quite exasperated at times) and takes the highly regarded position of plenipotentiary to the Hokan race, where has to overcome the challenges of a race that can completely change it's culture and lifestyle at a whim.

All in all, an engaging and heartwarming scifi book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Not only terribly funny, but also incredibly clever!
Comment: It makes you laugh when you are alone in your room to read it. Does that happen often in your reading life? There's only another writer who is able to make me laugh that way and it's Robert Sheckley. If you like comedy in SF, buy this! You'll love the Hokas and their totally unbridled imagination. Or better, their total inability to make a difference between fact and fiction. Which is something that happens more and more often in our world, so it could be argued that we're all more or less Hokas, after all. It is a funny a clever book, and tells you a lot about life in a media-saturated world.

Rating: 4
Summary: funny
Comment: A race of teddy-bear aliens with a strange feature: Whenever they read a book or watch a movie, the whole planet starts imitating that scenario. This (obviously silly) premise leads to a pretty funny SF book in the hands of two very good writers.