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   Hamelin Plague, The, by A. Bertram Chandler  
 
  Novel, first publication in 1963
 
 
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  It began with a few small items in the newspapers--dead dogs and cats, a mutilated child, a series of unexplained fires. Then, suddenly, it exploded into a full-sized catastrophe. Huge mutants--half rat, half man--began to take over the world, stealing children for slaves and destroying whole cities and their populations. Only a few people excaped, among them Tim Barrett, his wife, Jane, and a handful of survivors. Alone on the high seas in a small ship, they set off to find the island where Dr. Theodore Piper had been experimenting with a sonic death ray. They knew Dr. Piper was their only hope for personal and world survival--if he was still alive...if the King Rats hadn't forced him to serve their evil purpose...and if he could find a way to stop the spreading horror of invasion.

 
 
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  • Horror - Terror
  • Slavery - Slaves - Servitude
  • Supermen - Human Species Evolution - Future Man - Superheroes - Mutants

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