Men from PIG and ROBOT Author:Harry Harrison For addicts of lightweight Sci-Fi. — Humorous accounts of specially trained and bred pigs and of the Robot Obtrusion Batallion give eleven thousand new space policemen insight into possible assignments. — Two separate stories as told to a class of graduating cadets to introduce the special services for which they might wish to volunteer. — In the f... more »irst, the governor of the planet Trowbri calls for help with a ghost problem and gets a homesteading pig farmer -- actually a well-trained member of the Porcine Interstellar Guard, who exposes the "ghosts" as aggressive aliens secretly mining uranium from Trowbri.
In the second case, another agent, disguised as a robot hawker, lands on an unfriendly planet to investigate the recent disappearance of the galactic census-taker; aided by his highly sophisticated talking computer, the man from R.O.B.O.T. traces the mysterious, hostile behavior of the planet's adult male inhabitants to a bacterium that causes paranoia.« less