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	King Rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Rat (1962 novel), a James Clavell novel set in WWII
		King Rat (1965 film), a move based on the novel
		King Rat (1998 novel), an urban fantasy by China Miéville
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Rat (131 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - King Rat
		Corporal King is a street-wise soldier who is one of a handful of American prisoners of war in Changi, a camp dominated by British and Australians.
		King manages to rise to a position of power over everyone regardless of their rank or social standing, by virtue of his ability to manipulate people and control the prison's fl market.
		King Rat, though virtually unrelentingly cynical, is a powerful tale of the survival of the fittest.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/kingrat.php (1194 words)

	King Rat - China Mieville
		Saul is rescued from the clutches of the police by an unlikely creature -- King Rat himself.
		King Rat also has his reasons for helping (and manipulating) Saul, but Saul begins to understand who the enemy is and how he might be conquered, leading to the predictable final showdown.
		It's a novel of trial-and-error: a fairly simple story (which he's not entirely comfortable with, leading to some creaky spots and characters), some marvelous ideas (what Saul is, for example), and some flair for writing (which gets a bit out of hand here), all mixed together, splattered across the pages.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/mieville/kingrat.htm (708 words)

	Archive Page - China Miéville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		King Rat is as sharp as a Tokyo comic.
		King Rat goes down as sweetly as week-old garbage, to leave the reader eyeing speculatively the manhole covers of Soho and Battersea.
		China Miéville follows his acclaimed King Rat with this remarkable tale, set in the metropolis of New Crobuzon, sprawling at the centre of its own strange world.
	www.panmacmillan.com /Features/China/archive.htm (770 words)

	About Page - China Miéville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		King Rat was published in 1998: an urban fantasy which immediately caught the attention of readers and reviewers internationally.
		His second novel, Perdido Street Station was published in 2000 and was shortlisted for the BSFA award.
		The novel won the Arthur C Clarke Award 2001 and the British Fantasy Award 2001.
	www.panmacmillan.com /Features/China/about.htm (70 words)

	ISIS News no.3 index
		GNA was chosen because previous studies by the authors showed the effects of the lectin on the rat small bowel have been ‘minimal’, at least when fed on large amounts of the lectin for ten days or less.
		Jonathan King, genetic researcher at MIT (and signatory to our World Scientists Statement), points out that research is being stifled also because of the culture of secrecy that now surrounds scientific research; "It’s a common experience at scientific meetings for people to withhold information because they have a patent pending.
		Consistent with this result, the growth rate of male rats was found to be inhibited by the GM soya.
	www.i-sis.org.uk /i-sisnews3.htm (8667 words)

	DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Jailed on suspicion of murdering his father, a bewildered Saul Garamond is sprung by a stinking, shadowy apparition of a man in a filthy trenchcoat.
		His rescuer claims that not only is he King of the Rats, but that Saul is rodent royalty and half-rat himself and that his life is in danger.
		Like King Rat he soon masters soundless stealth, learns to melt into shadows, to squeeze through small cracks and openings, and climb straight up walls.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/horroronline/rev0999.html (759 words)

	DarkEcho/HorrorOnline: China Mieville (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		A dark urban fantasy that weaves the legend of the Pied Piper with the Drum 'n' Bass subculture of modern London, KING RAT is fascinating, multifaceted and eloquent -- and its author is, well, fascinating, multifaceted and eloquent himself.
		In fact, Miéville's use of Cockney slang in his novel is one of the elements that makes the character of King Rat -- "the Duce of the sewers" -- darkly distinct.
		It' a fantasy novel -- in that it's set in a secondary world inhabited by humans alongside other races, and there's magic, and so on -- but I've always hated Tolkien: this is very far from 'epic' or 'heroic' fantasy.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/horroronline/mieville.html (2620 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Linkin Park's DJ Joseph Hahn has purchased the option rights to shoot a movie based on China Mieville's 1998 novel, "King Rat," a book about a young London drifter who is wrongly jailed for the murder of his father.
		The character is rescued from authorities by the King Rat, who claims to be his real parent and the leader of a rodent army driven out of Haemlin 700 years ago.
		King Rat trains the young boy to fight the man who framed him for murder, the Rat Catcher who is a flautist that works his melodies into drum 'n' bass to turn London's dance scene into his own army.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /110703/clips.html (2465 words)

	The Fortean Bureau -- China Mieville-- City Animal
		Just to give an inkling -- his first novel, King Rat (1998), was nominated for both the Bram Stoker and the International Horror Guild awards.
		I tend to start a novel with various images - a specific monster, a setting, a somewhat surreal vision - and then construct the plot by stringing those together, trying to concretise them while sustaining a particular emotional tone.
		The first image [for the novel] was a city of ships, lashed together in the sea.
	www.forteanbureau.com /dec2002interview.html (885 words)

	SciFan: Books: King Rat by China Mieville (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, collections)
		China Miéville's urban fantasy novel, King Rat, is an impressive, even daring, debut.
		Furthermore, it is inspired by the unlikeliest of sources, the Rat King legend and the Pied Piper of Hamelin fairy tale.
		Finally, King Rat, powered and propelled by the rhythms of jungle/drum-'n'-bass music, is a fantasy novel set in the 1990s that genuinely captures the 1990s.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=8570 (308 words)

	China Mieville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Based around the dance-music subculture of Drum and Base, this brilliant first novel of urban gothic introduces the outstanding new talent of China Mieville.
		Disturbing and different, this debut novel is ingenious and punchy.
		King Rat is his first novel, and he is now working on a second.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/chinamieville.html (269 words)

	The Marsh Agency - Author information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		His first novel was KING RAT(1998); PERDIDO STREET STATION appeared in March 2000.
		His second novel, PERDIDO STREET STATION is about to blow a very large hole in the stodgy complacencies of one of our most popular and most conservative, literary genres.
		In this crowded, clamarous urban fever-dream, a plethora of species live chitinous cheek to feathered jowl, the squalid and the poetic become inseparable, and a sculptor and a scientist must resolve a nightmare within a nightmare.
	www.marsh-agency.co.uk /author.asp?author=MIEVC (1331 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Perdido Street Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Like the author's 1998 debut book King Rat, this is an urban-gothic novel full of rich city squalor--but this time the setting isn't London but the grimy fantasy metropolis of New Crobuzon.
		Ostensibly Perdido Street Station is a fantasy novel, though one where the usual sub-Tolkien genre clichés of orcs, goblins, elves and dwarfs are replaced by a far stranger menagerie of human and exotic creatures, and those Remade caught somewhere in between.
		Despite the presence of what we would call magic, the novel also has a strong science fiction flavour, with it's lead character being a scientist, and Mieville rationalising the more fantastical elements of the novel with the fictional science of crisis energy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0330392891 (1616 words)

	Mystery Books - Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers - First Edition Mystery Books Catalog
		The last of Bowers’ five novels, before her career was cut short by tuberculosis, and a delightful village mystery.
		Bookfinger specialized in reprints of rare fantasy and mystery novels and was active in the 1970s, with print runs of only 1000 per title.
		F/F. Author’s first novel is an epic adventure of an escaped Australian convict and his ten years on the run in India.
	www.crimepays.com /pcat.htm (3261 words)

	mtv.com - News - Linkin Park's Joseph Hahn To Take On 'King Rat'
		The book centers on a young London drifter who is wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his father.
		The character is rescued from authorities by the mysterious King Rat, who claims to be his real parent as well as the leader of a rodent army driven out of Hamelin 700 years earlier.
		King Rat trains the boy to fight the man who framed him for murder, the Rat Catcher, a flautist who works his melodies into drum 'n' bass music to turn London's dance music scene into his army.
	www.mtv.com /news/articles/1479388/09292003/linkin_park.jhtml?headlines=true (800 words)

	Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		The law in 1998 that extended copyright by 20 years is known as the "Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension Act" because one of the main sponsors of this law was Disney.
		But perhaps a novel should be treated differently; perhaps for that, commercial publication should require an arrangement with the original author.
		To explain what he did, he was publishing a novel as a serial, by installments, and he said, "If I get enough money, I'll release more." But the request he wrote was hardly a request.
	www.gnu.org /philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html (10816 words)

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		White death a novel from the NUMA f 2003 DAILEY Dailey, Janet.
		In pursuit of the proper sinner 1999 GILCHRIST Gilchrist, Ellen, 19 Sarah Conley 1998 GILMAN Gilman, Dorothy, 192 The elusive Mrs.
		The Fortuny gown 1995 LANDON Landon, Margaret, 19 Anna and the King of Siam 1999 LATHEN Lathen, Emma, pseud.
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	Appropriate Means
		Having said that, in the novel I'm writing at the moment, quite a lot of it takes place not in a city: that's because I'm trying to mediate my own interest in urban environments through more than simply the constant repetition of a hallucinatorily there city.
		One is political, in the sense that to write an anti-colonial novel is to be historically and politically revisionist vis-a-vis colonialism itself.
		The amount his characters suffer is something many of his imitators just don't seem to notice and is peculiarly absent from their work; and yet your novels often seem to be full of suffering and grief.
	www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue35/bould35.htm (4681 words)

	China Mieville interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		"The novels aren't propaganda, of course, and if you wrote a novel that could only be enjoyed by someone of the same politics as you, it probably wouldn't be a great novel.
		The point I suppose is to make it that you don't have to be interested in the politics to enjoy the novels, but there is stuff there if you are.
		I wonder whether The Scar is a utopian novel, concerned with the promise and threat of anarchistic political experimentation.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intchina2.htm (2649 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on King Rat at Epinions.com
		But this book, published in 1998, has drum and bass at its core, and its rhythms are at the centre of the brilliant climax.
		I don't want to reveal too much about the plot of King Rat, because much of the narrative is about discovery.
		His second novel transcends the sword and sorcery genre, but if you don't like conventional fantasy you probably won't like it, so try this one instead.
	www.epinions.com /content_17812786820 (838 words)

	DreamHaven Books, Comics and Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		HC (Starline) 1997 A vampire novel with an Arthurian bent.
		Horrocks' hopes for a stable future are shattered when an assassination attempt kills one of the king's sons and forces the king himself into hiding.
		Horrocks' quest to restore his king will cost him more than even he could predict as he struggles to find the real prize hidden among the counterfeit kings.
	www.dreamhavenbooks.com /rare-HCs.php (13730 words)

	Dr. Silber's Bibliography
		Silber, S.J. (1998) The use of epididymal sperm for the treatment of male infertility.
		Silber, S.J. (1998) ICSI with epididymal and testicular sperm in azoospermic men.
		Silber, S.J. (1998) Editorial: The cure and proliferation of male infertility.
	www.infertile.com /closlook/bibliogr.htm (5382 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		His next novel, The Scar, forthcoming in 2002, while set in the same universe, is a standalone narrative.
		Does it strike you as ironic or incongruent at all that your fantasy novel based in a "steampunk" ethos of whirling cogs and punchcards wins an award named after the preeminent hard SF writer of satellites and spaceships, in which prose sensibilities are typically not paramount?
		As well as being personally delighted, I'm pleased because I've always felt that it is ultimately impossible to draw a sharp line between SF and fantasy—certainly I self-consciously draw on tropes from both—and I hope that the award going to a novel that's not "straight" SF might encourage a broad conception of the tradition.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue229/interview.html (3016 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Neverwhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In his first full-length novel, Gaiman, the comic-book mastermind, brings his talents to the fl-and-white world of books, eschewing the darkly elegant illustrations that are a trademark of his comics.
		But his boundless imagination carries everything even through the slower moments when it just seems like one of those useless fantasy "Point A to Point B" quests and the ending is absolutely pitch-perfect, even though you suspect it's coming, watching him pull it off is definitely watching a genius at work.
		There are also a few minor characters in the novel that I would have liked to have seen more of, but it appears that time and the plot did not permit.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380789019?v=glance (2739 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		A bibliographic listing of over 200 Arthurian novels, specifically focusing on literature appropriate for young adults, organized by major themes (discussed in the introduction), with index; appendices list books by reading level, give recommended titles for libraries, and note recent anthologies.
		Martin’s 0-312-24288-3, Sep ’99, $13.95, 376pp, tp, cover by Kill Karla Schwarz) Reprint (St. Martin’s 1998) gay literary fantasy novel that mixes contemporary elements with Greek legend.
		* +King Rat (Tor 0-312-89073-7, Sep ’99 [Aug ’99], $23.95, 318pp, hc, cover by Cliff Nielsen) Dark fantasy novel of a kingdom of rats in subterranean London.
	www.locusmag.com /index/yr1999/b31.html (2311 words)

	1998
		The Tower of the King's Daughter by Chaz Brenchley
		The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
		Rat Food by David Nickle and Edo van Belkom (winner)
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /years/1998.htm (375 words)

	New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
		King Rat by China Miéville (Tor, 2000, USA - previously published by in the UK by Macmillan, 1998).
		This was the first novel by the author of the utterly brilliant Perdido Street Station (2000).
		King Rat is a good book, and an exceptionally good first novel.
	www.sfsite.com /books/new126.htm (813 words)

	Biblio: China Mieville Biography and List of Works
		He stood unsuccessfully for the British House of Commons in the 2001 General Election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance.
		He is a member of the British Socialist Workers Party, and his left-wing politics colour his writing (they are particularly evident in Iron Council, his fourth novel).
		His first novel, King Rat, was nominated for both an International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker awards.
	www.biblio.com /author.php?author=433 (251 words)

	King Rat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for King Rat to receive a rating.
		KING RAT, based on the novel by James Clavell, deals with the captivity of a group of allied prisoners in the infamous Japanese-run Changi prisoner-of-war camp in Singapore, during World War II.
		There, an American corporal (George Segal) does whatever he can, including bribing his captors, to live as comfortably as possible, even at the expense of his fellow Allies.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/king_rat (322 words)

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