Get eBook Of Ants and Dinosaurs
By Liu Cixin
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
