Earthman's Burden
A collection of short stories.
IT COULD ALMOST HAVE BEEN EARTH
Or so thought Ensign Alexander Braithwaite Jones, who crash-landed on
the planet Toka, 500 light-years from the Solar System. Then he met the
Hokas, a race of teddy-bear-like aliens, with the astounding ability to
transform outdated Earth stories into riotous real life adventures.
From the guns and slang of an Old West saloon to a hair-raising drug
bust in Victorian England led by a button-nosed, pipe-puffing Hokan
Sherlock Holmes, the Hokas demand that Alex Jones live it all along
with them.
Suddenly his ordinary military career is changed into a crazy world of
intergalactic adventure, as he tries, without much success, to bring
his furry, alien charges along the road to civilization, sanity, and a
more respectable social rating in the Interbeing League.
Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian stock. He started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the great figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winning many Hugo and Nebula awards, and also winning the Gandalf (Grand Master) Award.
Hoka
Hoka consists of 6 total books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
