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Hokas Pokas

They're Baaaaack!

When a human thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte. it's time to get out a straitjacket. But when a Hoka thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, you'd better believe it! Particularly since there'll bet hundreds of other Hokas around who know for a fact that they're the French army mon amis, even if they're on another planet light years away from Earth, and the forces they're facing aren't the British but very nasty warlike aliens who by all reason should be expected to make mincemeat of of the Hokas.

But when it comes to Hokas, reason does not compute. These friendly, fuzzy aliens who resemble large Teddy bears have a very vivid imagination and have never quite grasped the difference between human fiction and reality, or (in the present case}, between past history and the much later and rather different present. Always bet on the Hokas. Even when a young lad and his Hoka tutor find themselves stuck on a planet where they seem to be scheduled to fulfill an ancient (and lethal) prophecy that neither of them had ever heard of until now, Hokas as usual find that reatity is merely optional and the good guys - and bears - always win, quicker than you can say HOKAS POKAS

". . . the funniest s-f ever written."
  - A Readers Guide to Science Fiction

"You aren't apt to find a more gleeful book of S-F."
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

"I'll bet you can't read just one."
- Philadelphia Weekly Press

 Publisher's Note: Hokas Pokas! has been published in parts. This is the first unitary edition.

Paperback

Cover art by Michael Whelan, 
designed by Patrick Turner

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, January 2000

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-671-57858-8

Copyright (c) 1983 "Prologue", by Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson; (c) 1957 Full Pack (Hokas Wild), The Mercury Press, Inc.; (c) 1983 The Napoleon Crime, by Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson; (c) 1975 Star Prince Charlie, by Poul Anderson & Gordon R. Dickson.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Typeset by Windhaven Press
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Electronic version by WebWrights
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Other Books in This Series:

Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!

Baen Books by Poul Anderson
Fire Time
Three Hearts and Three Lions

Baen Books by Gordon R. Dickson
The Magnificent Wilf
Mindspan

CONTENTS

Part I:
Full Pack (Hokas Wild)

Part II:
The Napoleon Crime

Part III:
Star Prince Charlie

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