Interstellar Pig
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Interstellar Pig (ISBN 0-14-037595-3) is a book by William Sleator, published in 1984. It's about a boy named Barney on vacation in a cottage. He's staying in a room where an insane person lived for twenty years, but it has been a pretty boring week until the neighbors come in.
[edit] Plot Summary
The neighbors were very odd and seemingly obsessed with a board game called Interstellar Pig. This game seems to be a kind of board game, and Barney plays two games of it in the course of the book. The object of the game is to have the Piggy card in your hand when time runs out, when every planet but the Piggy holder's will be obliterated.
The plot thickens when Barney discovers that The Piggy is a real thing. The neighbors are not what they seem, and they want it back.
[edit] Related Materials
There was a sequel to this book called Parasite Pig, published in 2002
There have been a few adaptations of the prototype game in the book into fan-made boardgames.
There are also rumors it will be made into a movie produced by Nickelodeon.
