Spacepaw

Bill Waltham has a sneaking suspicion that a few important details were purposely withheld from him when he receives his assignment to the planet Dilbia. At first, the project - to teach the planet's bear-like inhabitants basic agricultural skills - seems a straightforward, though boring, undertaking for a young engineer on the rise. But Bill immediately senses a very keen hostility from the Dilbians toward interfering humans. And in trying to solve a major crisis on the planet, he finds himself involved in a knock-down, drag-out brawl that has all the undertones of a David-and-Goliath battle revisited. ϡ쯦랠 A Human engineer finds himself re-routed to a pre-industrial planet inhabited by an intellignet species that resemble bipedal grizzly bears. The Human Embassy is deserted, and the Humans' arch-rivals, the Hemnoinds, are making progress in winning the hearts and minds of the natives.