The year of the angry rabbit [Import] [Unknown Binding]

Russell Braddon (Author)

Product Details

• Unknown Binding: 181 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann; First American Edition edition (1964)
• ASIN: B0000CM97I
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,197,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 28 Days after Dawn of the Rabbit, February 8, 2009

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This review is from: The Year of the Angry Rabbit (Hardcover)

I've been hunting for this book for ages. It's been out of print for over 40 years and mint condition copies go for huge amounts of money. Satirical apocalyptic fiction appeals to me, and TYOTAR has equal amounts of both.

Set in a retro-alternate mid-nineties future, the Australian government accidentally creates a brutal virus called Supermyx when researching how to keep rabbit populations down. The rabbits go mental and attack, infecting and killing the humans instantly. 'Ella' Fitzgerald, the sleazy as hell Prime Minister orders the remote lab to be bombed off the face of the Earth, but not before using samples of the virus to push Australia to the top of the world political food chain.

'Ella' is man so evil and ruthlessly selfish that he'd make Adolf Hitler look desirable in contrast. His fascist government may have seemed OTT back in 1964 but it's damn close to how our leaders act today. Needless to say, the rest of the planet don't take too kindly to Ella's chaotic grip on world affairs. That is until the rabbits come back.

It's amazing that TYOTAR has been out of print for so long considering how observant, intelligent and eerily prophetic it turned out to be. Russell Braddon was surely an unsung genius and I urge you to scour second-hand bookstores for this novel. It was adapted in a rather stupid movie in 1972 called Night of the Lepus, but it's a thin adaptation at best, with none of the Braddon's wit or cruelty.