
The basic premise of the book is clear: miniaturised people have to survive the micro-savagery of an ordinary garden. The specific milieu is a post-abundance world, ecologically poisoned by misuse of pesticides resulting in the deaths of billions by starvation. However, there is plenty of food for an insect-sized elite, providing the dystopian political power struggles of opposing factions can be resolved: or one side destroys the other!
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I've not yet decided whether the eugenics philosophy of several of the characters is part of the narrative or Williams's own. I'm hoping the former?? 2h