A review by uhambe_nami
Anthill by Edward O. Wilson

3.0

The story of Raff Cody starts off nice enough, but to find the treasure of this novel one has to dig deep within the Anthill until reaching the part called The Anthill Chronicles (Part IV of the book). This is where the real action takes place: Ant-sex, soldiers, queens and maidens, battles, conquests, even a siege and some ant cannibalism. I was secretly hoping for an ant slave raid such as the one observed by Thoreau near his Walden cabin (and commented on by Wilson in [b:The Future of Life|183829|The Future Of Life|Edward O. Wilson|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348406814s/183829.jpg|1757283]), and indeed, I was rewarded in the end. With skill and wit, Wilson shows us that ant societies are not that different from human ones, and that the ant equivalents of colonialism, slavery and even genocide (he calls it myrmicide) can be found in and around the anthills in our very backyard.