Ediciones B / Nova 2022

The author of The Three-Body Problem returns to science fiction with an ecological warning in the form of a fable: the story of some poor dinosaurs who ignored the ants’ warnings about an imminent environmental disaster.

Intelligence is but a fleeting spark in the long night of cosmic history. For not one but two intelligent species to inhabit the Earth at the same time calls into question any probability calculation. The fact that these two species, as different as they are complementary, forged an alliance that in turn ignited a civilization defies all logic.

The beginnings of the alliance between ants and dinosaurs were humble, but from it came writing, mathematics, computers, and even space travel. A true age of wonders that, nevertheless, would exact a heavy price from Earth’s biosphere and from those who depend on it.