![]() ![]() A phenomenal bestseller in Europe, Empire of the. ![]() A singleton of interest is Le Papillon des étoiles ( 2006), a Generation Starship tale whose vast cast – over 100,000 people – engages upon a journey slated to last a thousand years. In this, his first novel, Bernard Werber describes with chilling accuracy a universe of abominable crime and warfare hidden below ground. Most of Werber's subsequent work appears in series, often with linked characters. The irruption into human space of an Underground civilization of ants in this tale is conveyed in a contemplatively dispassionate tone very far removed from most thematically comparable English-language fiction, though it may reflect some awareness of the tradition of the Scientific Romance. The admixture of Horror in SF topoi and philosophical discourse (conveyed in part through ample Infodumps) that characterizes Empire of the Ants can therefore be traced through later work. (1961- ) French author, most of whose work remains untranslated into English, though the first volume of his Les Fourmis sequence, Les Fourmis ( 1991 trans Margaret Rocques as Empire of the Ants 1996), gives some insight into a creative strategy he has followed subsequently. ![]()
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