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Line 1: {{work}} '''[[Empire of the Ants']]'' (original title: ''Les Fourmis'') is a science-fiction book written by Bernard Werber in 1991. It got a sequel in 1992, and another one in 1996. It's about the Wells family, who have inherited a house from their dead uncle Edmond Wells, an eccentric scientist who was obsessed about ants and apparently discovered very strange stuff about them. In his will, he has left the instruction to "[[Schmuck Bait\|never ever go down in the basement]]". Line 7: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== '''This book and its sequels involves the following tropes:''' ===~~ * [[A God Am I]]: A kid communicates with the ants and gets them into some sort of cult, leading them to believe he is their all-knowing god. * [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: A computer becomes sentient in the third book and dead-set on fulfulling the will of its [[Knight Templar]] user, its very minerals becoming hostile to attackers. * [[Ant War]]: Especially the first book. * [[Artistic License: Biology]]: You should not take everything Werber writes at face value. Do you, for example, honestly believe a man could freeze himself to death {{spoiler\|just by believing he is in a cold chamber}}? * [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Melies and Laetitia Wells. * [[The Cassandra]]: 327. The ants don't want to listen to him when he tries to warn them about the ant-slaughter he has witnessed, since he fails to bring proof. {{spoiler\|1=The ant MIBs didn't help.}} * [[Continuity Drift]]: An ant is described as laughing and doing humor in the first book; the following two ignore this and claim that ants do not know the concept of humor. * [[Famous-Named Foreigner]]: Subverted: the main family is named "Wells", but are French. A character also asks if they are related to H.G. Wells. * [[Humans Are ~~Bastards~~the Real Monsters]]: Werber loves this trope: playing it straight and subverting it. * [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Obviously, when it happens through the point of view of ants, due to both the size and the culture difference between us and them. Throughout the series, the humans are referred as the "Fingers", since this is the part of us ants usually interact with. And when ants encounter human buildings, cars or others, they take them for [[Alien Geometries]] due to the sheer size and incomprehensibility of them. Oh, and the reason why so many ants got killed instantly in the first book's beginning? {{spoiler\|They were just stepped on by an old grandma.}} Then again, ants are sort of a little Cthulhu to humans, as well. * [[I Am a Humanitarian]]: When the human protagonists are stuck in the basement with nothing to eat, one of them decides that they should resort to cannibalism. They then get in a bloodthirsty fight. This also happens with an ant queen who is forced to eat her own eggs so that she has enough energy to lay an egg that can hatch. Line 30: [[Category:Science Fiction Literature]] [[Category:Empire of the Ants]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]]