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Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 Matthew Dilke
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y separately published work icon Cold War in a Country Garden Lindsay Gutteridge , London : Jonathan Cape , 1971 Z980104 1971 single work novel science fiction

'The garden was seven miles long. A puddle was a lake... a shower of rain a flood. Flowers were giant trees. Ants, centipedes, wasps were deadly predators.

'Matthew Dilke and his platoon were less than a quarter of an inch high, pioneers in a daring experiment to solve the problem that could destroy humanity.

'Then came the summons - and Dilke was sent on a mission... to the heart of Eastern Europe.'

Source: Goodreads.

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y separately published work icon Killer Pine Lindsay Gutteridge , London : Jonathan Cape , 1973 Z980117 1973 single work novel science fiction

'High in the Rockies a mysterious disease breaks out threatening the world's forests.

'Matthew Dilke and his miniaturized agents - including the delectable Hyacinth - are sent to investigate. And in the branches of a soaring pine they find their enemy - and face the awesome power of the warrior ants he controls.'

Source: Goodreads.

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y separately published work icon Fratricide is a Gas Lindsay Gutteridge , London : Jonathan Cape , 1975 Z980130 1975 single work novel science fiction

'Dilke has been miniaturized, first man in a daring experiment to solve Earth's hideous overcrowding. He was just a quarter of an inch high and there was no going back.

'Now Dilke, a microagent for British Intelligence, was on a mission to South America tracking down the source of a horrifying poison gas.

'And in the mammoth jungle Dilke was hunted... by mammoth-fanged wolf-spiders and the ferocious praying mantis.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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