Quando o Sr. Lister me perguntou sobre o título acima, isso me lembrou exatamente do que eu estava pensando. Spacepaw por Gordon R. Dickson.
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 bearlike inhabitants the 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.
E parece que eu estava errado sobre o urso não ser ameaçador ...
A não ser que eu esteja pensando nisso ... 