Book Description | In his short novel, “Of Ants and Dinosaurs,” the writer Liu Zixin talks about the late Cretaceous period, that is, millions of years ago, in a story that appears on the surface to be about ants and dinosaurs, and about their creation of two prosperous civilizations. He describes the idea seriously, using the two types as metaphors, perhaps for what happened in the past. The creation, prosperity, and collapse of entire civilizations
It also links the fictional story to present-day issues such as environmental pollution and nuclear weapons. Which means that science fiction literature may be a prediction of the future, and it may also be a warning of the doom of the entire Earth, and this is what we see before us, with the presence of nuclear arsenals in the West and the East. |