Books and me
- Permutation city - Greg Egan
- Fastfood nation - Eric Schlosser
- Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber translated from French.
I think this is an excellent book. He uses the ants as devices to explore some truly novel biological insights which include:
- time perception varying with temperature, insects can only regulate their internal temp. through behaviour. The Temperature is a point in time e.g. 23degC time
- Pheromonal/molecular Language
- caste system, and social insect mentality
I'm not sure how much is based on evidence but I recognized many things I learned in entomology classes. Either way they are not Human characters they are well developed aliens The book allows you to getting into the mind and culture of another species. For example the dependence of pheromones. The use of Pheromones as global nest communication, the ant respond as cell in an endocrine system. Its so rare to see character developed sufficiently non-human to not see ot as just another human drama played out using animals. Both recent movies about ants - bugs life and antz make me cringe with their primate insects
reading list
Spoiled by Nicolas Fox, more disturbing facts< following the same vein of fast food nation] with a broader scope/p>
sex advice for all creation by Olivia Judson
The face, a natural history by Daniel McNeill
-unfinished
Sacrament-Clive Barker - I didn't really enjoy this book
Axiomatic- Greg Egan - short stories
Great Apes - Will Self -didn't finish
The alphabet and the goddess- the conflict between word and image - Leonard Shlain
Quicksilver - Neal Stephensonc- didn't finish
They shall know our velocity - fiction -didn't finish
How the dead live -Will Self - fiction
The weather makers - Tim Flannery - non fiction
Norwegian wood - Haruki Murakami -fiction
Lords of the rim - Sterling Seagrave -non fiction
One hunderd years of solitude - -non fiction