HUGO AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY MAGAZINE
The Wisdom of Ants
Winner: 2013 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story, Winner: 2012 Aurealis Award for Best YA Short Story
Our second piece of audio fiction for December is "The Wisdom of Ants" written by Thoraiya Dyer and read by Kate Baker.
Clarkesworld Magazine Issue 75 - The Wisdom of Ants by Thoraiya Dyer [41:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (8780)Please Support This Month's Sponsors
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thoraiya Dyer is an Australian writer, archer and ex-veterinarian. Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in Cosmos, Apex, Nature and Redstone SF. Fans of "The Wisdom of Ants" can get hold of the Australian-inspired stories, "Yowie" (Aurealis Award winner for Fantasy Short Story) and "Night Heron's Curse" (Aurealis-shortlisted) from Twelfth Planet Press and Fablecroft respectively. "Asymmetry," a collection of four original stories, will be published in 2013 as part of Twelfth Planet Press' Twelve Planets series.
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ISSN 1937-7843 Clarkesworld Magazine © 2013 Wyrm Publishing. Robot illustration by Serj Iulian.
TwistedSciFi wrote on December 18th, 2012 at 4:48 pm:
Kate, another beautiful narration and amazing story. I love the irony tied to the fact that although the ants are their enemies, they actually used them as weapons against their real enemies from the island. Loved the ending too. Thanks for all you do! Keep up the great work!
A. Corvus wrote on December 20th, 2012 at 11:19 pm:
Yet another excellent story. The coming of age of a resourceful and strong leader is the stuff of tale and folklore and science fiction, of course. The idea that species of ants would be so specialized and our heroine would be able to manipulate them is smart and original.
Kudos to Thoraiya and Kate.