This book is SO GOOD.
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@futurebird I'm not much of an audio book guy, but I'd listen to that for sure!
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Oh man I read that back in the 1970s.
A woman wrote a sort of response story to that based on the same premise but with different outcomes. Unlike Consider Her Ways, the extinction of men did not mean the end of sex, and society did not become a hive. Wish I could remember the title.
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Oh man I read that back in the 1970s.
A woman wrote a sort of response story to that based on the same premise but with different outcomes. Unlike Consider Her Ways, the extinction of men did not mean the end of sex, and society did not become a hive. Wish I could remember the title.
That's a different story. I'm talking about the book about ants by Frederick Philip Grove
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That's a different story. I'm talking about the book about ants by Frederick Philip Grove
Wow, they're only 9 years apart:
The sci fi version must have copied the title.
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Wow, they're only 9 years apart:
The sci fi version must have copied the title.
I think they are both copying proverbs 6:6
Look to the ant lazy one,
consider her ways and be wise,
She has no boss, no overseer or king,
yet she stores provisions in summer
she gathers her food at harvest. -
I think they are both copying proverbs 6:6
Look to the ant lazy one,
consider her ways and be wise,
She has no boss, no overseer or king,
yet she stores provisions in summer
she gathers her food at harvest.The "King James" version of the bible uses "it" rather than "she" ... but in some other texts they get the pronoun right for a worker ant which makes me wonder if some people knew that all of the workers are female or if it's just a coincidence.
