Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #18 September 2015 | Page 49

port) who persuades the government to set up a small,
high-technology research station to determine what is
happening and how to cope with the potential “biological imbalance.” With him is computer scientist/linguist Jim Lesko. After a few weeks of observation and
under pressure to get results or shut down the project,
Hubbs destroys a number of massive towers built by
the ants. This precipitates a back and forth struggle between man and ant. The two men are joined by Kendra
(Lynne Frederick), the only survivor of a small farm
family that is accidentally killed when they are caught

in a cloud of pesticides. The humans find themselves
increasingly unable to cope with the ants, who prove
to be potentially more intelligent than mankind. In the
end, Hubbs is killed by the ants, Kendra has been absorbed into the hive mind, and Lesko appears to have
accepted that a new hybrid society is the inevitable
outcome, one that will see mankind in a subordinate
role to the new rulers of the Earth, the meekest of the
meek.

“We are faced with a power that has appeared and is
exerting itself. We have the opportunity to study it, to
learn from it, to teach it