The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer is a science fiction novel by American writer Mike Resnick, published in 1983.
The Three-Legged Hootch Dancer is a novel in which a carnival owner blackmails a company into performing on the interstellar circuit.
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]