The Vilbar Party by Evelyn E. Smith

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Vilbar Party by Evelyn E. Smith

Comments

[ba_munronoe]

Yes, looks more like a grumpy humanoid dog here than a teddy bear.

Could it have been this 1982 collection? http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?328711

That's where I encountered it.

[leecetheartist]

I do have Laughing Space, but I had read it much earlier. My late Dad frequented many second hand bookstores, and got a lot of yellowing paperback anthologies, but I'm dashed if I could tell you which one it was in. Unless I'm completely misremembering.

[ba_munronoe]

According to the isfdb, could be this http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/7/78/HMNNBNGS4E1963.jpg

or

http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/3/3b/THTHRDGLXR1960.jpg

[leecetheartist]

That's a cool superpower you have there. The Third Galaxy Reader really pinged, I'm sure I've seen it before.