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Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Paperback)
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Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Paperback)
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A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning
from the author of The Three-Body Problem. In a sunlit clearing in
central Gondwana, 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.
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
civilization 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 civilization... or perish alongside them?
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