Of Ants and Dinosaurs: Cixin Liu

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 dinosaurs – two species so unalike and yet so complementary – forged an alliance that culminated in an antimatter-powered Age of Wonder.

But such magnificent industry came 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 all warning of impending ecological collapse, leaving the ants facing a single dilemma: destroy their allies... or perish alongside them?