Sandkings

I am beginning to see a trend in these Sci Fi stories. There is always an idiot. Always. In this story, it is Kress (a.k.a the Sandking god). Basically he buys these intelligent insects and breeds them by being “god” and bending them to his will. Obviously this goes wrong and they rebel against him. Kress, being a coward, ignores how he is told to care for him, and ends up killing everyone who shows up at his house. It isn’t until the last couple pages that he calls Wo (the woman he bought the insects from) to ask for help.

I really liked the ending of this story. Well it was awful, no doubt, but I liked how we found out what happened to the orange Sandkings. The ending kind of made it an underdog story because the oranges were weak and small but then they ended up taking down their so called god. It was pretty ironic how the orange children had his own face as well. Kress tried to be all-mighty and on top but then he creates these monstrous beings that basically mock him with his own image. It was a fitting end, I believe.