This multimillion city occupies only two square meters of the earth’s surface! Its inhabitants are the most hardworking creatures in the world! Their ability to obey rules is the dream of any dictator! One can only envy their intellect! They are ants! And they live among us…
Or is it we who live among them?
Whose civilization will prove more viable? This is not a book about ants. Nor is it a book about people. It is Werber’s fantasy, from which he methodically constructed the illusion of a “popular science novel.” Which in itself is rather false: Nikitin wrote action novels about people and insects, Michael Crichton wrote thrillers, and this Frenchman writes pseudo-intellectual prose.