[PW] Re: Story with 2 Boars

[Dan Goodman]

Dennis Lien wrote:
> 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.

Actually, the book is a fix-up:  several stories on several planets. 
I've read the book; it's mildly interesting.

> 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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