Of Ants and Dinosaurs
Book description
A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. From humble tooth-picking origins, ants and…
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Liu is the author of one of my favourite recent works of science fiction, a trilogy called The Three-Body Problem, so deciding to read Of Ants and Dinosaurs felt completely natural. He’s working in a very different mode here, though.
Of Ants and Dinosaurs is a modern fable and tells the story of an Earth where these two vastly different species achieve sentience, build a symbiotic civilisation, and what happens after. It’s a fast read, and you can tell Liu was having fun in the writing. Full of wonderful ideas and perspective-shifting observations, this is an oddball science fiction/fantasy.…
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