I chuckled myself to sleep last night reading the 2001 Hugo-nominated (man, I have no concept where the hell that idea came from) short story “The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale.” I found the story via manybooks.net, or rather, via mnybks.net, the mobile-oriented skinning of the site.

The author, Benjamin Rosenbaum looks to be a fairly celebrated current SF writer, and based on what I can only describe as the perfection of the story (a satirical take on the Orpheus myth that applies Silicon Valley and text-based computer games to the legend) I concur.