A lighthearted romp through the realms of the improbable...

Okay, imagine that Earth's h. sapiens wasn't the only version out there.  Imagine that Earth was invaded by a whole advanced stellar empire of a different version.  One with big noses, fur, and tails.  Now, imagine that that bunch of different-humans weren't...quite so strong in the pure I.Q. department as our kind.  Or the common sense department. 

Once you've got those ideas set in mind, you've got the basic ideas behind Christopher Anvil's Pandora's Legions. 

I read Pandora's Legions for the first time several years ago, not long after I discovered Baen's free library website.  Since then, I've read it a few more times.  It has never failed to make me laugh out loud.  Anvil writes this from the point of view of the Centrans, and the befuddled horror as the benevolent dictators discovered that their newest "conquered" people weren't quite so readily subdued (and why) comes through clearly and realistically. 

The book itself is a compilation of a novelette and several shorter pieces set in the same world, only collected into novel form much, much later by Baen's Eric Flint. 

I very highly recommend this book.  It really is laugh out loud funny.  And it is, after all, free for download or to read online, at the above link.