Charlie Brown's complaint

Usage examples of rats.

After brewing up the cyber-enhanced rats, the genetic engineers at the New Fabian Society's labs had tried for more heroic and idealistic helpers for mankind's war when the bats' soft-cyber units were downloaded.

The male rats always had their vocal synthesizers adjusted to a low pitch, in the attempt to sound like real he-rats.

In the narrow uncaved-in section of what had been their bunker, a handful of rats and a cluster of bats pressed against the sandbag-wall.

Even if the alien soft-cyber enhanced rats and bats, with all their goofy attitudes and ideas, were still more his kind of folk than those sons-of-Shareholders were, he'd still like to see a living human again.

The rats were fine excavators, but the main problem was where to put the uncompacted material they were digging out.

Even the tubby Fal moved with the startling speed that made the rats such powerful, if reluctant, allies in this war.

The Korozhet also had slowshields, and the wondrous soft-cyber implants which had uplifted the rats and bats.

They were veering away from the rocks, following the route the rats had taken.

There was no doubt about it: away from the trench-and-heavy-shelling warfare of the front, the combined skills of the human, rats and bats could lick five times their number of Maggots.

You and the rats can manage on half an hour snatches, but I'm running out of steam.

The gadget was designed for rats: smaller, overall, than the human version, but with an oversized striker to suit the relatively clumsy "fingers" of a rat's forepaws.

But he supposed if the worst came to the worst he could eat Maggot too, like the rats and bats.

The rats, nature's own looters, had carted away two of the Maggot patrol killed before the "command performance.

The rats could see better than he could in low light conditions, and of course the bats, to whom it mattered not at all, were at home in total darkness.

By the time they got back onto the ledge, the rats were considerably chastened.