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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Books for Ant
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 08:28:39 -0800
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On 3/3/2025 8:03 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:42:56 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
>> Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 09:50:31 -0700, "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net>
>>> wrote:
> 
>>>> This looks like a nice trilogy!
>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-Ghost-Ants-Antasy-Book-ebook/dp/B019MMQS8E
> 
>>> Our Ant doesn't like to read. :)
> 
>> Yeah, get me a computer game and/or movie/TV show. :P Actually, the
>> brief plot/story reminded me of Grounded game I played during its free
>> weekend. Did anyone play it?
> 
> 
> I couldn't; I was grounded.
> 
> I always disliked "humans shrinking to insect size" stories...
> especially the ones that expect to be taken half-way seriously (I'll
> forgive crap like "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" because those are
> turn-your-brain-off experiences). But there are so many necessary
> adaptations that make survival in the world-of-tiny that humans lack
> that it's hard for me to overlook. Not to mention the idea that humans
> with entire BODIES smaller than the head of ant (as the cover of the
> book above implies) are supposed to be as smart as what their
> full-sized brethren...

"Magic"

If it's not magic then it's insanely implausible.  They'll need to give 
me some sort of semi-plausible reason for me to get into it.

Otherwise it sounds interesting.

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