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.« less