A Boy and His X: Difference between revisions

* The book ''A Kestrel for a Knave'' (adapted for film as ''Kes'') follows A Boy and His... well, you can guess, can't you? {{spoiler|It also falls prey (no pun intended) to [[Death by Newbery Medal]].}}

* ''The City and the Stars'': A Boy and His Noncorporeal Psychic Superintelligence from [[Precursors|Before Civilization Fell]]. But really, Hilvar is an adult with a penchant for strange pets. Nonetheless, his people are psychics, and that allowed him to make contact with Vanamonde.

** Very similarly to ''[[The Horse and His Boy]]'', in Fredric R. Stewart's ''[[Cerberon]]'', the eponymous unicorn has been George's best friend his entire life. The novel opens with George clearly in command, but by the end it's Cerberon who is in charge. In a [[Shout-Out]] to [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]], Cerberon's mother is named Jewel, after the unicorn in [[The Last Battle]].

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Star Beast]]'': <s>A Boy and His Giant Talking Space Lizard</s> A Giant Talking Space Lizard and Her Boy.

** ''[[Have Space Suit—Will Travel]]'': An Extragalactic Alien Peacekeeper and Her Two Wards.

* In one of [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Brentford'' stories Omally (always spelled without the apostrophe, for some reason) refuses to die without his faithful Marchant. Pooley [[Lampshade Hanging|comments,]] "A boy and his bike! I feel sick!"

 

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[[Category:Loyal Animal Companion]]

[[Category:Pet and Animal Companion Tropes]]

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