The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer

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Cover of the first edition, published by Signet Books. Art by Don Punchatz.

The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer is a science fiction novel by American writer Mike Resnick, published in 1983.

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Plot summary

The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer is a novel in which a carnival owner blackmails a company into performing on the interstellar circuit. [1]

Reception

Greg Costikyan reviewed The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer in Ares Magazine #14 and commented that "The intrusion of a human scale into a genre whose major appeal is its galactic scale is a tricky task to pull off, and few have done it successfully. Mike Resnick is one such writer." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Costikyan, Greg (Spring 1983). "Books". Ares Magazine (14). TSR, Inc.: 48.
  2. "Title: The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer".