[PW] Re: Story with 2 Boars

[Shari Haber]

Thanks, Dennis. This is my best bet yet. I'll pass it along.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Lien" <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:01 AM
Subject: [PW] Re: Story with 2 Boars


> At 05:38 AM 12/15/2006, you wrote:
>
>>   Shari Haber wrote
>> > I have not been having any luck in identifying a story that a 
>> > patron
>> > read while in the 5th grade, circa 1985. The book may be of older
>> > vintage, but it dealt with a man who travels with two boars (chosen 
>> > as
>> > companions because of their fierceness or strength). It might have 
>> > been
>> > a fantasy, but the patron believed it to be set in modern times on
>> > earth. Any ideas?
>
>
>
> Harry Harrison has a novella (published in book form under same title)
> called THE MAN FROM P.I.G. which I don't believe I've ever read, but
> vaguely recall from blurbs involves a man travelling with pigs instead
> of dogs or whatever for that reason.  I think it's set on another
> planet in the future, though.
>
> Published in ANALOG magazine in July 1967; in book form in 1968 as
> an Avon pb, and in hc in 1974 with another story as THE MAN FROM
> P.I.G. AND R.O.B.O.T.
>
> Magazine cover illustrating the story at
> http://tinyurl.com/ye5gze
>
> and pb cover derived therefrom at
> http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n4/n21507.jpg
>
> in case your patron might recognize same.  Didn't find a cover of the
> later hc.
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
>
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