The Rat Race (novel)

The Rat Race (novel)

infobox Book |
name = The Rat Race
title_orig =
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image_caption = Dust-jacket from the first edition
author = Jay Franklin
illustrator =
cover_artist = Jack Gaughan
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
release_date = 1950
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback)
pages = 371 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1711283
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"The Rat Race" is a science fiction novel by Jay Franklin. It was first published in book form in 1950 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 1,500 copies of which 1,200 were hardcover. The novel originally appeared in the magazine "Collier's Weekly" in 1947.

Plot summary

The novel concerns Lieutenant Commander Frank Jacklin who is blown up in a thorium bomb explosion while on the battleship Alaska. He awakens in the body of Winnie Tompkins who had perpetrated the explosion. As Tompkins, he learns of a plot by German agents to poison Franklin D. Roosevelt and he tries to warn the authorities. He continues to become involved in intrigue until another accident restores Tompkins to his body, leaving Jacklin in the body of a dog.

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=270 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Crawford, Jr. | first=Joseph H. |coauthors=James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant| title="333", A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel | location=Providence, RI| publisher=The Grandon Company | pages=29 | date=1953|oclc= 3924496
*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=94 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1


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