The Wild Ones

This is a copy of the 1984 Australian first edition of the The Wild Ones. It is published by Paul Collins and is Bertram Chandler's last completed novel.

A golden furred giant reared up impossibly on its tail and hind flippers before Grimes and then fell upon him, knocking him sprawling.

A flipper, a great slab of heavily muscled meat, lay heavily on his chest, making breathing difficult. Others, working clumsily but surely, were spreading wide his arm.

Grimes say a wide mouth, displaying the large, blunt teeth of the herbivore, was open, was about to close upon his hand.

He wondered if the Silkies would kill him after they had chewed his hands off. It didn't matter; he would very soon die of loss of blood...