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The Men from P.I.G. and R.O.B.O.T.
The 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...  more »

In the first, 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.
ISBN-13: 9780689306341
ISBN-10: 0689306342
Publication Date: 2/1978
Pages: 141
Edition: 1st ed
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Publisher: Atheneum
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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