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Micronauts
Micronauts | Gordon Williams
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The Micronauts | Gordon Williams, Gordon M. Williams
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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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Bookwomble A rescue mission is needed, of course, involving an Indiana Jonesesque entomologist and a fascist soldier affectionately known as "The Butcher"!
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??
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The Micronauts | Gordon Williams, Gordon M. Williams
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Reading "Fantastic Voyage" reminded me of my love of the miniaturised humans genre, of which there is too little written, and not enough in my collection, so I ordered some more, which arrived today ?
As well as FV, I've read Lindsey Gutteridge's Cold War in a Country Garden series, both authors using an espionage setting. The blurb for Gordon's Micronaut series gives the setting as an incipient overpopulation/food scarcity crisis, but
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Bookwomble ... Power Bloc shenanigans seems likely to feature in this one, too.
Tempted though I am too dive straight in, I'm going to try to finish at least one of my 18 other "currently reading" books first!
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Luke-XVX I recently got an RPG zine through the post where you essentially play as “Borrowers”. 3mo
Luke-XVX I spent many a Sunday afternoon watching Land Of The Giants too 3mo
Bookwomble @Luke-XVX Sounds like an interesting game 😊 I thought of Land of the Giants, too: although the humans aren't miniaturised as such, it's obviously to the same effect. 3mo
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