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That Creeping Sensation

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 5
Page count: 10

Author

Alan Dean
Foster

Appeared in

Loosed Upon the World

Story Summary

In a future, hotter world, the oxygen content of the air has increased and with it the size of bugs - six inch bees and three foot cockroaches. Extermination has become a military responsibility, and specialists like Sergeant Lissa-Marie and Corporal Gustafson spend their days fighting back the arthropod world in Kevlar suits.