Years of the Rats
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| Title: | Years of the Rats |
| Publisher: | Willowtree Press |
| Editor(s): | Kat Parsons |
| Date(s): | 2002 |
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| Fandom: | Rat Patrol |
| Language: | English |
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Years of the Rats is a gen Rat Patrol time travel and time displacement anthology.
Issue 1
Years of the Rats 1 was published in 2002 and contains 230 pages.
- The Cage of the Inquisitor by LC Wells. In the time of the Inquisition, four intrepid young men form a team to fight the Spanish; their chief opponent is an honorable German captain of horse.
- Moffitt's Lament by Kat Parsons. Filk. Adaptation of "Cowboy's Lament". Reprinted from "Odds and Ends".
- Season of Inundation by Sheila Paulson. Shadow Chasers crossover. Tully and Dietrich have shared a secret for many years—a secret about the end of the world. Can they get the help they need to stave off disaster?
- "Chain of Death" Interlude by Kat Parsons. Filk. Adaptation of "Cool Water", as it might have been sung as Dietrich and Troy trekked across the desert. Reprinted from "Odds and Ends".
- Grains of Sand by LA Carr. Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a team of rebels runs a mission against an honorable imperial commander.
- Ghost Jeeps in the Sky by Kat Parsons. Filk. Adaptation of "Ghost Riders in the Sky"; different version than "Jeep Drivers in the Sky" printed in "Odds and Ends".
- Blue Ticket by Con Featherby. Dietrich and Moffitt find themselves drawn into the past, where history forces Moffitt to choose death for a family member even as an unknown and dark family secret rises into view.
- Heart or Feather by Kat Parsons. Elderly Professor Moffitt gets a chance to make right the greatest blunder of his life.
- On Top of a Sand Dune by Kat Parsons. Adaptation of "On Top of Old Smokey". Reprinted from Odds and Ends.
- The Sands of Time Raid by Cynthia K Taylor and Judith B Wolford. Dropped into the past by unknown forces, Troy, Moffitt, Hitch and Dietrich grapple with the temptation to become a part of history.
- The Armageddon Raid by Mary Lou Swartz. Dietrich, his men, and his prisoners—the Rats—find themselves transported to an apocalyptic future where, it seems, they were expected.
Issue 2
Years of the Rats 2 was published in 2002.