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"Rodent Mutation" is my favorite of the Badger Books series for a few reasons. As the proud owner of 10 pet rats, the idea of giant rats....well...I kinda like it. Maybe I wouldn't feel that way if they were feral...but still...I get a little gooey inside thinking about it. And to make things even more fun (and super cheesy), the back cover lets us know that the mutation isn't just gigantism. No, no, no! There's so much more to it than that. Did you know these giant rats can teleport? Nothing can contain the rodent menace, because they'll just teleport out of their cages. This totally needs to be made into a movie. BUT, I demand these use large people in rodent costumes and not CGI. It's gotta be old school like that.
P.S. I realize that the rodents featured on the cover are beavers. Yep, giant beavers. However, the back cover explicitly tells us that rats and beavers both turned into teleporting giants and the title itself does say "rodent" mutation, not "beaver" mutation.
My poor fiancee has been dealing with an awful flu all week, hence my absence. He's getting better, but we're not out of the woods yet. In the meantime, I did want to at least post something on the blog, feeling I've been leaving it idle for too many days. So, I'm going to share one more Badger Book before I share with you the best Badger Book in my collection, which I recently won on an eBay auction and haven't had a moment to scan yet. So, enjoy this great ape! He almost looks like he's a hybrid of a great ape and conehead. Love the title as well-- mark of the beast? Is this a Satanic ape? A Satanic conehead ape? Probably... Badger Books are just that cheesy.
Oh Badger Books...your cheesy qualities and sci-fi camp make you so much fun. Just what I need to wake up with a smile on a Saturday morning. I don't have a lot of commentary to offer on this Badger Book, "Dark Millennium." It doesn't offer anything much beyond an attacking, giant monster and some screaming victims. I will say this nuclear war/scary monster pb is a great lead-in for a post I'm going to do in the next few days on non-fiction nuclear war hardbacks. Now, if I could just get my scanner going....
I just have to share another amazing Badger Books sci-fi pulp. My fiancee and I are very excited, because yesterday we were able to acquire two new sci-fi paperbacks for our collection that have been long-time wants (i.e. Rodent Mutation and Tharkol: Lord of the Unknown). In the meantime, enjoy this shocking tale. If it happened in real life, I'm sure it would have been called "the robot menace!"
Badger Books was a late 50's, early 60's British publisher of mostly forgettable science fiction. In fact it was so terrible at times, that a book was a published a few years ago called "Down the Badger Hole," which highlighted the terrible writing. A fellow named Lionel Fanthorpe wrote many of the books, including the one I am highlighting in this blog. I will continue to highlight more Badger Books in future editions. What they lack in writing, they make up for in wonderfully sensational cover illustrations. I just love "Fiends"... giant ants attacking people reminds me of the lovably terrible movie "Empire of the Ants." There's so much cheese here, all I need is some bread to make a sandwich.
