![]() ![]() They are all duly destroyed, with the assistance of a steam-powered dirigible Airship whose introduction augurs the Steampunk of a few years later. They are Mutant descendants of a single Sumatran rat – alluding to Sherlock Holmes's famous aside to Dr Watson about "the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared" – and have hypnotized normal rats to attack in unison, as though they were dancing. After hundreds of human lives are lost, the giant rats at the heart of this attack on civilization are discovered. ![]() Most of his novels are Young Adult historical tales of sf interest is Rattus Rex ( 1978), set in an 1860s London plagued by a sudden infestation of strangely well-disciplined rats (for As Above So Below and Urban Fantasy see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below). (1940- ) UK archival librarian, playwright and author, in Scotland from 1969. ![]()
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