The third and last of William Barton's 1970s Starover books, This Dog/Rat World prefigures in brief much of his later, better known work. Here we have downtrodden races, artificial intelligences yearning to breathe free, an immortal, telepathic cat, empires and spies, the futility of war, and the first appearance of that nightmare weapon, the Teleport Bomb.
The third and last of William Barton's 1970s Starover books, This Dog/Rat World prefigures in brief much of his later, better known work. Here we have downtrodden races, artificial intelligences yearning to breathe free, an immortal, telepathic cat, empires and spies, the futility of war, and the first appearance of that nightmare weapon, the Teleport Bomb.