HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS:
AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE!
Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance, which may be a problem, since the bearlike Dilbians; stand some nine feet tall, and have a high regard for physical prowess. They're not impressed by human technology, either. A real man, er, bear doesn't need machines to do his work for him.
But Dilbians are impressed by sharp thinking, and some have expressed a grudging admiration for the logical (and usually sneaky) mental maneuvers that the human "shorties" have used to get themselves out of desperate jams. Just maybe that old human craftiness will win over the Dilbians; to the human side. If not, we lose a nexus, and the Dilbians will learn just how unbearable Hemnoids can be....
"Excellent!" -Science Fiction Review
| Publisher's Note: The Right to Arm Bears has previously appeared in parts as Spacial Delivery, Spacepaw, and "The Law-Twister Shorty." This is the first unitary edition, and those are the bear facts. |
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Best and funniest of DicksonCombine the zany humor of the Poka stories with the philosohical depth of the Dorsai books and you have the absolute best of all Dickson's writing.
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Product ReviewThis is not military SF involving armed bears (as the cover might imply), but instead slightly comic space opera that is unfortunately all too out of style these days. Not as silly as the Hoka stuff, more like de Camp's Krishna novels (only shorter, and with bears)
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Product ReviewI can't remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed a book! Thought-provoking humor. I love it. Somebody ought to write a series based in that universe. If I was anything of a writer, I'd do it myself.
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Product ReviewThis is a great book. It has two shorts and one novella, but it has one under lying theme... against incredible odds the protagonist pulled it off because he used his head. Not brawn or weapons. (Is that not a Gordon R Dickson theme?) One of my favorites now and always.
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Product ReviewI suppose it was better for the time. But the cover is a little decieving.
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