Prophets of the Ghost Ants (eBook, ePUB)
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First in the epic Antasy saga, set in a world in which culture and beliefs are derived from Humankind's profound intertwining with the insect world.In a savage landscape where humans have evolved to the size of insects, they cannot hope to dominate. Ceaselessly, humans are stalked by night wasps, lair spiders, and marauder fleas. And just as sinister, men are still men. Corrupt elites ruthlessly enforce a rigid caste system. Duplicitous clergymen and power-mongeringroyalty wagepointless wars for their own glory. Fantasies of a better life and a better world serve only to torment those who dar...
First in the epic Antasy saga, set in a world in which culture and beliefs are derived from Humankind's profound intertwining with the insect world.
In a savage landscape where humans have evolved to the size of insects, they cannot hope to dominate. Ceaselessly, humans are stalked by night wasps, lair spiders, and marauder fleas. And just as sinister, men are still men. Corrupt elites ruthlessly enforce a rigid caste system. Duplicitous clergymen and power-mongeringroyalty wagepointless wars for their own glory. Fantasies of a better life and a better world serve only to torment those who dare to dream.
One so tormented is a half-breed slave namedAnand, a dung-collector who has known nothing but squalor and abuse.Anand wants to lead his people against a genocidalarmywho fight atop fearsome, translucent Ghost Ants.But tohis horror, Anandlearns this merciless enemy is led by someone from his own family: a religious zealot bent on the conversion of all non-believers . . . or their extermination.
A mix of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadow of the Apt,Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor,and Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass,this is a powerful new addition to the genre.
"One of the most engrossing, original and powerful novels I have read in years . . . a monumental cross-genre book, an allegory like Animal Farm , as well as a thrilling adventure into a whole new world. Exciting, visionary, a tour de force." -Lawrence Bender, producer of Inglourious Basterds , Pulp Fiction , Good Will Hunting , An Inconvenient Truth
In a savage landscape where humans have evolved to the size of insects, they cannot hope to dominate. Ceaselessly, humans are stalked by night wasps, lair spiders, and marauder fleas. And just as sinister, men are still men. Corrupt elites ruthlessly enforce a rigid caste system. Duplicitous clergymen and power-mongeringroyalty wagepointless wars for their own glory. Fantasies of a better life and a better world serve only to torment those who dare to dream.
One so tormented is a half-breed slave namedAnand, a dung-collector who has known nothing but squalor and abuse.Anand wants to lead his people against a genocidalarmywho fight atop fearsome, translucent Ghost Ants.But tohis horror, Anandlearns this merciless enemy is led by someone from his own family: a religious zealot bent on the conversion of all non-believers . . . or their extermination.
A mix of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadow of the Apt,Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor,and Phillip Pullman's Golden Compass,this is a powerful new addition to the genre.
"One of the most engrossing, original and powerful novels I have read in years . . . a monumental cross-genre book, an allegory like Animal Farm , as well as a thrilling adventure into a whole new world. Exciting, visionary, a tour de force." -Lawrence Bender, producer of Inglourious Basterds , Pulp Fiction , Good Will Hunting , An Inconvenient Truth
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