{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d92","title":"The Empire of the Ants","publish_year":1905,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 29","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1905bVol.XxxJul-dec/page/n689/mode/2up","author":"H. G. Wells","code":"the-empire-of-the-ants","words":5796,"image":"ants.jpg","rating":4,"image_alt":"three ants marching down a branch. Graphite filter.","unique_cover":"A drawing of three sailors on a sinking wooden boat.","genres":["adventure","fantasy","sci-fi","quirky"],"blurb":"When Captain Gerilleau received instructions to take his new gunboat, the Benjamin Constant, to Badama on the Batemo arm of the Guaramadema and there assist the inhabitants against a plague of ants, he suspected the authorities of mockery.","description":"A ship captain is asked to take his boat to assist a town on the Amazon against an army of... ants.","cover_source":true,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"adventure","title":"Best of Adventure","collection_type":"genre"}]}