The Brats: A Novel of the Future

by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

The big blow-up had taken place twenty-five years before. England - such as it had become - was, save for small pockets of oldies, peopled by the Brats. These are sub-human hairless creatures that hunted in packs, whose only impulse was to kill. Since the oldies could no longer reproduce their own kind, mankind seemed doomed. But Peter Croft, with two companions, convinced that humankind's only hope lies not in physical conquest of the Brats but in some way through them, is forced to leave the village with its oldie inhabitants in search of a solution. What that solution is, and whether it represents anarchy or order, salvation or destruction, is Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes' absorbing and riveting theme for this outstanding novel of the future.

Genres: Science Fiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 1979

About the author

Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes aka Angus Campbell.

Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes was an author, best known for his ghost stories. His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man From The Bomb in 1959. He went on to publish many collections and ten other novels including The Grange, The Haunted Grange, And Love Survived and The Curse of the Snake God. He also edited over 20 anthologies. Several of his short works were adapted into anthology style movies in the United Kingdom, including The Monster Club and From Beyond the Grave. Chetwynd-Hayes' book The Monster Club contains references to a film-maker called Vinke Rocnnor, an anagram of Kevin Connor, the director of From Beyond the Grave.

He won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1988, and the British Fantasy Society Special Award in 1989.