When looking to other creatures for signs of intelligence, insects are rarely the most obvious candidates, but as the historian Thomas Moynihan writes, it wasn't always so.

This concept of civilization-ending climate change now being just around the corner isn't far out or unprecedented; check out this headline from last week's Washington Post: "The best place to ...

If all insects vanished, civilization, as well as ecosystems throughout the world, might collapse without dung beetles, dermestids, and pollinators.

The novel is split between the point of view of a tiny insect named Roi, and the point of view of Rakesh, a bored human living in a far-future civilization known as the Amalgam.