John Brunner and Rats

[Lafayette]

Is my memory faulty or did John Brunner write a novel about mutated Rats that were violent in the late 60s or early 70s?

I remember it as a good story and plausible. I don't recall the exact title. I would like to read it again to see if it was or is as good as I remember?

P.S. Was he related to the Marvel comic book artist Frank Brunner?

 

[nixie]

I've never read any John Brunner books. I do remember James Herbert's The Rats first published 1974 about rats who mutated.

Now I need to find my copy along with Lair and Domain and see if they are as good and scary as I remember.

 

[Lafayette]

I've never read any John Brunner books. I do remember James Herbert's The Rats first published 1974 about rats who mutated.

Is he related to Frank Herbert?

Now I need to find my copy along with Lair and Domain and see if they are as good and scary as I remember.

 

[AE35Unit]

I've never read any John Brunner books. I do remember James Herbert's The Rats first published 1974 about rats who mutated.

Now I need to find my copy along with Lair and Domain and see if they are as good and scary as I remember.

I read all 3 for the first time this year. Very good books

 

[AE35Unit]

P.S. Was he related to the Marvel comic book artist Frank Brunner?

I doubt it. John Brunner was british

 

[AE35Unit]

Is he related to Frank Herbert?

Err, no. Wrong side of the pond

 

[pogopossum]

At one point I was sort of a Brunner completist. It was difficult because his early stuff seemed to consist mostly of Ace doubles. Much harder to find in the day. Making some allowances for a less than perfect memory, I can pretty well assure you that RATS! was not his.

 

[Danny McG]

Probably not what you're looking for, but I'm adding it to this thread for any future searchers of "Rats" in this forum.

Ratman's Notebooks - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Lafayette]

Probably not what you're looking for, but I'm adding it to this thread for any future searchers of "Rats" in this forum.

Ratman's Notebooks - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

No it's not, but thanks to you and others for replying. They definitely were not cute rodents, but very dangerous and nasty mutated rats.

 

[AE35Unit]

At one point I was sort of a Brunner completist. It was difficult because his early stuff seemed to consist mostly of Ace doubles. Much harder to find in the day.

The only Brunner I've read was a weird book called The Squares of the City. Not sf at all, I've no idea what it was, but it was a DNF

 

[pogopossum]

Sorry. Loved it. Definately social science fiction. It also replicated an actual chess match.
Brunner was an early Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament (Alderston March) peace advocate. Lots of his middle/late stuff was political.
There was a rumor that he had invented the Peace Symbol. He was certainly around when it happened.
LINK

 

[AE35Unit]

Sorry. Loved it. Definately social science fiction. It also replicated an actual chess match.
Brunner was an early Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament (Alderston March) peace advocate. Lots of his middle/late stuff was political.
There was a rumor that he had invented the Peace Symbol. He was certainly around when it happened.
LINK

It didn't make any sense to me and was just boring.

 

[KGeo777]

Came across this book recently.
Just throwing it in there.

 

[BAYLOR]

I've never read any John Brunner books. I do remember James Herbert's The Rats first published 1974 about rats who mutated.

Now I need to find my copy along with Lair and Domain and see if they are as good and scary as I remember.

I read Rats , It wasn't a bad book . It was made into a not very good film in 1982 titled Deadly Eyes.