The Year of the Angry Rabbit
Russell Braddon
Sir Alfred – who
engineered Fitzgerald's election to prime minister – calls Fitzgerald
one evening with a complaint: his Bludgerton property has been infested
with rabbits that are immune to myxomatosis. Fearing another rabbit
epidemic, Fitzgerald tasks Professor Welch and his scientists with
inventing super myxomatosis, or Supermyx, to control the growing rabbit
population. They test the first batch of Supermyx on a male and female
rabbit, with disastrous results: Supermyx does not kill rabbits, and
merely makes them savage, as if infected with rabies. Supermyx is,
however, instantly lethal to humans, as demonstrated when Sir Alfred is
brutally killed by the test cases, which then escape and turn the entire
rabbit brood into flesh-rending Supermyx carriers.
It looks as though
Australia will be overrun by rabbits. Millions of them, immune now to
the myxomatosis that decimated them in the nineteen hundred fifties and
sixties, are teeming over the land. With an election imminent, Prime
Minister Kevin Fitzgerald, known to his cronies as Ella, is forced to
act. It is obviously an emergency. The rabbits must be wiped out.
Scientists assemble; experiments begin.
The results are
shattering. Australia suddenly becomes the most feared nation on earth:
America and Russia hurriedly surrender to her their nuclear devices, as
do the other powers; Fitzgerald becomes virtual dictator of the rest of
the world.
The Commonwealth Government establishes peace on earth
except for limited wars which are fought under strict supervision,
according to rules laid down in Canberra. Only two nations are allowed
to fight at one time, for example.
On the crest of this incredible wave of prosperity a tiny news flash is overlooked.
It says:
RABBIT AS BIG AS ALSATIAN SHOT BY SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER THREE MILES NORTH OF MUDGEE...
Inexorable as a lighted fuse, Russell Braddon's bitterly funny satire sets off a literary detonation of many megatons.
engineered Fitzgerald's election to prime minister – calls Fitzgerald
one evening with a complaint: his Bludgerton property has been infested
with rabbits that are immune to myxomatosis. Fearing another rabbit
epidemic, Fitzgerald tasks Professor Welch and his scientists with
inventing super myxomatosis, or Supermyx, to control the growing rabbit
population. They test the first batch of Supermyx on a male and female
rabbit, with disastrous results: Supermyx does not kill rabbits, and
merely makes them savage, as if infected with rabies. Supermyx is,
however, instantly lethal to humans, as demonstrated when Sir Alfred is
brutally killed by the test cases, which then escape and turn the entire
rabbit brood into flesh-rending Supermyx carriers.
It looks as though
Australia will be overrun by rabbits. Millions of them, immune now to
the myxomatosis that decimated them in the nineteen hundred fifties and
sixties, are teeming over the land. With an election imminent, Prime
Minister Kevin Fitzgerald, known to his cronies as Ella, is forced to
act. It is obviously an emergency. The rabbits must be wiped out.
Scientists assemble; experiments begin.
The results are
shattering. Australia suddenly becomes the most feared nation on earth:
America and Russia hurriedly surrender to her their nuclear devices, as
do the other powers; Fitzgerald becomes virtual dictator of the rest of
the world.
The Commonwealth Government establishes peace on earth
except for limited wars which are fought under strict supervision,
according to rules laid down in Canberra. Only two nations are allowed
to fight at one time, for example.
On the crest of this incredible wave of prosperity a tiny news flash is overlooked.
It says:
RABBIT AS BIG AS ALSATIAN SHOT BY SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER THREE MILES NORTH OF MUDGEE...
Inexorable as a lighted fuse, Russell Braddon's bitterly funny satire sets off a literary detonation of many megatons.
카테고리:
년:
1958
출판사:
W. W. Norton & Company
언어:
english
파일:
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