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Post by wireman on Nov 16, 2022 13:08:19 GMT
The discussion for today is The Empire Of The Ants by HG Wells
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Post by wireman on Nov 17, 2022 13:55:13 GMT
It's a bit of an odd story and not really one of my favorite HG Wells tales but it was one of the earliest stories to be a man vs nature story that gives some credit to creatures for being intelligent. The story has an anti climatic ending which Wells did sometimes (War Of The Worlds for example). Not bad but it's HG Wells and I expect a lot better. 
Great premise but not HG Wells' best story telling.
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Post by spideyman on Nov 17, 2022 16:09:10 GMT
Agree it is not one of Wells best stories. And also the anti climatic ending. Calls for so much more to be told. Did have the creepy feeling of ants crawling all over the body. Descriptive, indeed. Guess this led the way to future stories with intelligence given to other than man.
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Post by wolf on Nov 17, 2022 16:29:40 GMT
(Reminds me some of George R.R. Martin's "Sandkings". Read that one years ago. I didn't like it, and wasn't too crazy about the end....well, there was one good thing about the end. It was a story very well done.)
Sandkings is a science-fiction horror novelette by George R. R. Martin, first published in the August 1979 issue of Omni. It takes place in the "Thousand ... Published on: 1979 
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Post by wolf on Nov 17, 2022 16:36:19 GMT
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Post by wireman on Nov 18, 2022 14:59:12 GMT
The discussion for next Wednesday will be The Olive by Algernon Blackwood
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