Eric Frank Russell's "Muten" (as by Duncan H Munro) (short story, humor): Fun transporting an intelligent talking horse
US government's Board of Social Survey keeps a record of country's mutants. Now they've got a call for a possible mutant, & Steven Yule is dispatched to investigate it. He finds the mutant all right, only it's a horse - an intelligent talking horse! A lot of fun transporting him to government's labs...
Title is mutant mispronounced by the farmer in whose stables talking horse was born.
Rating: A.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
Related: Stories of Eric Frank Russell (as by Duncan H Munro) (annotated list).
Title is mutant mispronounced by the farmer in whose stables talking horse was born.
See also.
- James Blish's "How Beautiful With Banners" (download): Another story where the resolution is primarily by sexual arousal.
Fact sheet.
First published: Astounding, October 1948.Rating: A.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
Related: Stories of Eric Frank Russell (as by Duncan H Munro) (annotated list).
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