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True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle

Leroy Kettle

First published 2018
Publisher Ansible Editions
Format eBook
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Rob Hansen

  • No cover price or ISBN.
  • Edited by Rob Hansen.
  • Contents listed in order of appearance. Contains the majority of contents of all 10 issues of True Rat.
  • Identities of "Graham Charnock (I)", "Rich Coad (I)," "Peter Weston (I)" and "Brian Aldiss (I)" have been confirmed by David Langford.
  • Cover image credited on title/copyright page.
  • Available as epub, Mobi, Kindle AZW3 and pdf formats at the taff.org.uk site.

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Page Title Author(s) Type
|1 Introduction (True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle) Leroy Kettle Essay
|10 Truconfessions Leroy Kettle Essay
|100 Good Stuff Since Last issue: A Mention of Most of What I've Enjoyed. Leroy Kettle Essay
|101 Open Flie (True Rat 9) Leroy Kettle Essay
|102 New New New from True Rat Pubs [2] Leroy Kettle Essay
|103 True Pro Stories Proudly Presents: My Incredible Experiences with Famous SF Writers – No. 1: Arthur C. Clarke Leroy Kettle Essay
|104 New New New from True Rat Pubs [3] Leroy Kettle Essay
|105 Letter (True Rat 9) D. West Essay
|106 Letter (True Rat 9) Mike Glicksohn Essay
|107 Letter (True Rat 9) John Piggott Essay
|108 Letter (True Rat 9) Ray Harrison Essay
|109 Letter (True Rat 9) Tom Perry Essay
|11 Ratfan Recollections Leroy Kettle Essay
|110 Letter (True Rat 9) Bob Shaw Essay
|111 Letter (True Rat 9) Joseph Nicholas Essay
|112 Letter (True Rat 9) Bruce Townley Essay
|113 Letter (True Rat 9) Charles Platt Essay
|114 The Editorial Comes First Because It's a Convention. Leroy Kettle Essay
|115 A Totally Untrue Story of Far Away and Long Ago Leroy Kettle Essay
|116 Convention Hints No. 34 Leroy Kettle Essay
|117 When I Was Poorly Leroy Kettle Essay
|118 Convention Hint No. 53 Leroy Kettle Essay
|119 A Message from the Convention Committee Leroy Kettle Essay
|12 Pissog Leroy Kettle Essay
|120 Convention Hint No. 4 Leroy Kettle Essay
|121 Open Flie (True Rat 10) Leroy Kettle Essay
|122 Convention Hint No. 19 Leroy Kettle Essay
|123 The Letter Column Leroy Kettle Essay
|125 True Cat Leroy Kettle Essay
|126 An Interview with Thomas M. Disch Leroy Kettle Essay
|127 How Not to Be a Writer Leroy Kettle Essay
|128 Don't Blame Me Leroy Kettle Essay
|129 The Skycon Interview Simone Walsh & Leroy Kettle Interview
|13 A True Rat Interlude Leroy Kettle Essay
|130 Open Flie in Checkpoint: The Column Where the Truth Lies ... Leroy "A" Kettle Leroy Kettle Essay
|131 The Voice of the Bolster (The Column That Helps You to Sleep) Leroy Kettle Essay
|132 Open Flie (The Column That Lets Some of It Hang Out) Leroy Kettle Essay
|133 Open Flie: The Column That Doesn't Mention the SDP (Well, Only Once) Leroy Kettle Essay
|134 Open Flie (The Column That Fails Where All Else Succeeds) Leroy Kettle Essay
|135 Brian Transplant Leroy Kettle Essay
|136 Sphincters at Dawn: A Novacon (10) Report with a Distinctive Air Leroy Kettle Essay
|137 The Nerds of November (Novacon 13) Leroy Kettle Essay
|138 This Crazy Sci-Fi Life ... Leroy Kettle Essay
|139 Harry Adam Knight: The Interview with John Brosnan Leroy Kettle Essay
|14 Another Day by Gilbert Leroy Kettle Essay
|140 Invitation Leroy Kettle Essay
|16 Real Idiot Leroy Kettle Essay
|17 A Bit I Couldn't Think of a Title For Leroy Kettle Essay
|18 Meet The Editorial Board Leroy Kettle Essay
|19 My Convention by Peter R. Weston (Form II B) Leroy Kettle Essay
|2 Foreword (True Rat: The Beast of Leroy Kettle) Rob Hansen Essay
|20 Uncle Esoteric and His Amazing Facts Leroy Kettle Essay
|21 John Hall's Magazine of Fairly Naughty Things. Leroy Kettle Essay
|21 Media Breakthrough Rich Coad (I) Essay
|22 It Can Now Be Revealed Leroy Kettle Essay
|23 It Can Now Be Relieved Leroy Kettle Essay
|24 The Mind Pebbles Graham Charnock (I) Short Story
|25 Ratbits (True Rat 2) Leroy Kettle Essay
|26 The Dangers of Colour T.V. John Brosnan Poem
|27 Letter (True Rat 2) Malcolm Edwards Essay
|28 Letter (True Rat 2) Peter Weston (I) Essay
|29 Bloody Women Leroy Kettle Essay
|3 Polly Put the Kettle On Leroy Kettle Essay
|30 Letter (True Rat 2) [2] Peter Weston (I) Essay
|31 Letter (True Rat 2) Charley Platt Essay
|32 GRONK (True Rat 2) Leroy Kettle Essay
|33 All Moan Work Leroy Kettle Essay
|34 Pornography – The Truth! Leroy Kettle Essay
|35 Feud for Thought, or Some Such Clever Title Leroy Kettle Essay
|36 Open Flie by Nicholas Monster-rat Leroy Kettle Essay
|37 Letter (True Rat 3) Simone Walsh Essay
|38 Letter (True Rat 3) Peter Weston Essay
|39 Letter (True Rat 3) Brian Aldiss (in error) Essay
|4 All the Fun of the Fair Leroy Kettle Essay
|40 Letter (True Rat 3) John Piggott Essay
|41 Do Not Type Outside This Frame – A Sort of Editorial Leroy Kettle Essay
|42 GRONK (True Rat 3) Leroy Kettle Essay
|43 New Readers Start Here: Leroy Kettle Essay
|44 A Convention Report (Novacon 4) Leroy Kettle Essay
|45 Open Flie by Martian Worker – More Fannish Revelations. Leroy Kettle Essay
|46 Letter (True Rat 5) Andrew Stephenson Essay
|47 Letter (True Rat 5) John Lowe Essay
|48 Letter (True Rat 5) Lisa Conesa Essay
|49 Letter (True Rat 5) Jhim Linwood Essay
|5 Once Upon a Time in Haverfordwest Leroy Kettle Essay
|50 Letter (True Rat 5) John Piggott Essay
|51 Letter (True Rat 5) Thom Penman Essay
|52 Letter (True Rat 5) Bri-Bri Essay
|53 Letter (True Rat 5) Julia Stone Essay
|54 S.F. Magazines Leroy Kettle Essay
|55 Editorial (True Rat 5) Leroy Kettle Essay
|56 Remember, You Wed It First in True Rat. Leroy Kettle Essay
|57 Real Idiot 2. Leroy Kettle Essay
|58 Open Flie: The Column That Tells All the Facts Like They Might Have Been. Leroy Kettle Essay
|59 Bromley Silent Farting Association Leroy Kettle Essay
|6 Adroit Lie Leroy Kettle Essay
|60 Letter (True Rat 6) Mike Glicksohn Essay
|61 Letter (True Rat 6) Mervyn Barrett Essay
|62 One Tun Mischief in Space Leroy Kettle Short Story
|63 Without More Apologies Then, It's Fanzine Time Leroy Kettle Essay
|65 New from True Rat Pubs Leroy Kettle Essay
|66 Real Idiot 3 Leroy Kettle Essay
|67 Feebles Leroy Kettle Essay
|68 Letters Leroy Kettle Essay
|69 Bigles and the Jiant Algy from Outer Spase Leroy Kettle Short Story
|7 Ratfandom Goes to a Convention: Part One (1) in Which Nothing Happens. Leroy Kettle Essay
|70 Review of the fanzine 'Stop Breaking Down' by Greg Pickersgill Leroy Kettle Essay
|71 Gronk (True Rat 7) Leroy Kettle Essay
|72 Letter (True Rat 7) Ritchie Smith Essay
|73 Letter (True Rat 7) Andrew Stephenson Essay
|74 Letter (True Rat 7) Brian Parker (I) Essay
|75 Letter (True Rat 7) Terry Hughes Essay
|76 Letter (True Rat 7) Merf Adamson Essay
|77 Letter (True Rat 7) Kevin Easthope Essay
|78 Letter (True Rat 7) Mike Glicksohn Essay
|79 Feeble Leroy Kettle Essay
|8 Ratbits (True Rat 1) Leroy Kettle Essay
|82 Spoof Mancon 5 PR Leroy Kettle Essay
|84 Guide to Rat Lies Leroy Kettle Essay
|85 Extremely Serious Bit Leroy Kettle Essay
|86 Open Flie – The Column That Tells the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth – If There's No Other Way Out. Leroy Kettle Essay
|87 GRONK – The Column That Takes Notes When People Least Expect It. Leroy Kettle Essay
|88 I Know What I Like – Good Stuff Since Last Issue. Leroy Kettle Essay
|89 Results of the 1975-1976 True Rat Frederik Poll Leroy Kettle Essay
|9 The Arts: Buried Images Leroy Kettle Essay
|90 Letter (True Rat Ate) Brian Robinson (letter writer) Essay
|91 Letter (True Rat 8) Vernon Brown Essay
|92 Letter (True Rat 8) Graham Charnock Essay
|93 Letter (True Rat 8) Mike Glicksohn Essay
|94 Letter (True Rat 8) D. West Essay
|95 Letter (True Rat 8) Bryn Fortey Essay
|96 APOLOGIES – The Column That (Sorry) That Alopogises (Sorry) Apologises Four (Sory) (Sorry) for Mistakes. Leroy Kettle Essay
|98 I Dreamed I Pubbed an Ish in My Maidenform Bra Leroy Kettle Essay
|99 New New New from True Rat Pubs. Leroy Kettle Essay