num_pages: 188
description: Meet the Hokas!...the most lovable - and the zaniest - characters you'll ever encounter in the entire Universe! Imagine how you would feel to be suddenly shipwrecked on a planet 500 light-years from the Solar System - and to walk into a 19th century, Old West frontier town! And then, to really shake your senses, you find the local citizens - in tremendous red bandanas, ten-gallon hats, chaps, high-heel boots and spurs - are pistol-toting teddy bears!
language: English
title: Earthman's Burden
titlecomplete: Earthman's Burden (Hoka, #1)
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Short Stories, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 387
series: Hoka
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novelette for "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound"
publisher: Avon Books