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“—We Also Walk Dogs” is a Science Fiction Short Story by Robert A. Heinlein , first published in 1941 and anthologized in ''The Green Hills of Earth'' (1951) and in ''The Past Through Tomorrow'' (1967). A company that provides various personal services such as shopping for you or walking your dogs or supplying a host for a party, is asked to do the impossible: enable an interplanetary conference to be held on Earth , whose strong Gravity is inhospitable to the native races of other planets in the solar system. Much of the action of the story is not, as one might expect, about the science or engineering of creating an Antigravity device, but about how to persuade the world’s leading physicist to undertake the job. It turns out he’s fond of a museum piece, ''The Flower of Forgetfulness'', to a casual glance simply a small China teacup. |
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