I see a lot of support for the insect ants. Ants aren’t workers, ants aren’t proletariats, ants are an army of monarchists. They are the brits of insects They invade other ant colonies (hexbear.net)

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They war with other colonies, they drive out several termite species rendering them extinct- along with other ground dwelling insects. They are also racist.

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago

I want to see ant nest uplifts as part of a pan-terran spaceship crew in some sf

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do the ant computers in the Children of Time series count (probably not)? I always found their enslavement to the spiders to be problematic and I hope it is addressed in a later book.

There is Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin.