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  • Written by: Cixin Liu
  • Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
  • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Of Ants and Dinosaurs

Written by: Cixin Liu
Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek
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In a sunlit clearing in Central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilisation were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. 

Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity - a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history. That Earth should harbour not just one but two intelligent species at the same time defies the odds. That these species, so unalike - and yet so complementary - should forge an alliance that kindled a civilisation defies logic. But time is endless and everything comes to pass eventually.... 

The alliance between ants and dinosaurs, was of course, based on dentistry. Yet from such humble beginnings came writing, mathematics, computers, fusion, antimatter and even space travel - a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price - a price paid first by Earth's biosphere and then by all those dependent on it. And yet the dinosaurs refused to heed the ants' warning of impending ecological collapse, leaving the Ant Federation facing a single dilemma: destroy the dinosaurs, destroy a civilisation...or perish alongside them?
©2020 Cixin Liu (P)2020 W F Howes
Alternate History Post-Apocalyptic Hard Science Fiction
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A fantastic fable from 60 million years ago : 'Animal farm meets Children of time'

Cixin Liu's 3 body problem is my most favourite sci-fi series for various reasons. He has the capacity to conjure wildly original themes and develop them with his vivid imagination.

This novella is based on one such theme. Ants are a superbly organized workforce without individual brilliance. Dinosaurs are sharp apex predators without dexterous limbs. What would happen if they formed a symbiotic relationship?

The author starts with a small accidental incident of ant-dinosaur collaboration and expands the plot throughout the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia with impressive detail.
There is grim ecological warning and lessons about how conflicts escalate in a civilization.
Highly recommended.

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