by Dave Freer and Eric Flint
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2000 by Dave Freer & Eric Flint
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com
ISBN: 0-671-31940-X
Cover art by Bob Eggleton
Interior maps by Randy Asplund
First printing, September 2000
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Freer, Dave.Rats, bats & vats / by Dave Freer & Eric Flint.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-31940-X
1. Human-animal relationships—Fiction. 2. Revolutionaries—Fiction.
I. Title: Rats, bats, and vats. II. Flint, Eric. III. Title.PS3556.R3935 R37 2000
813'.54—dc21 00-040370
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
To the world's grunts
Also by Dave Freer:
The Forlorn
Also by Eric Flint:
Mother of
Demons
1632
The Belisarius series, with David Drake:
An Oblique
Approach
In the Heart of Darkness
Destiny's Shield
Fortune's Stroke
The Federation of the Hub
series,
by James H. Schmitz
edited by Eric Flint:
Telzey
Amberdon
T'NT: Telzey & Trigger
Trigger & Friends
(forthcoming)