Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!

Poul Anderson · Gordon R. Dickson

Mar 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Gabriel Vaughan

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The Interbeing League had been formed to make contact with new intelligent races in the galaxy and offer them membership. But when the League encountered the Hokas, furry creatures strongly resembling the teddy bears of Earth, the League's agent, Alexander Jones, could have been excused for wishing he had a simpler assignment than making sense out of the Hokas-such as singlehandedly stopping an interstellar war. Not that the fuzzy aliens were unfriendly. In fact, they loved everything about humans, and adopted various Terram cultures wholesale and in every little detail-but with a bit of confusion about the differences between fact and fiction. So, if the Hokas suddenly started outing out the parts in a rip-roaring, shoot-em-up Western, or brought to life the London of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a pip-puffing, deerstalker-wearing Hoka, or suddenly decided to fly the Jolly Roger and lead a life of adventure and piracy on the high seas, mate-well, that was to be expected. And as the Hokas threw themselves wholeheartedly into progressively wilder worlds from Terran history and fiction, Jones could be excused for feeling that his grip on reality was hanging by a single, thin, increasingly frayed thread.

About the author

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was a science fiction writer who was admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets." Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik Awards, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001) was one of the most prolific and popular science fiction writers of the twentieth century. He published nearly fifty novels, several collaborations with other SF masters, and over 150 short stories, novelettes, and novellas.

Gabriel Vaughan is an Audie Award-winning narrator and classically trained actor. A founding member of the Tennessee Shakespeare Company, he co-owns Little Town Studios together with his wife and fellow narrator, Piper Goodeve. He has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and studied acting in London.

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