内容简介：
Sidon Dooling, a beetle slave in the cavalry of the Rolipolion Empire-land of the roly-poly bugs-thinks of nothing but to serve his beloved master. Shipped out to help establish a base on a strategic island in the North Ant Sea, the two find themselves fighting for their lives amid a screaming chaos of arachnids. Their chances seem slight until they happen upon a mysteriously peaceful hill. Here, they find sanctuary amid the violence, only to discover that they must contend with other refugees from the storm: an ant, a moth, a katydid-all traditional enemies of Rolipolio-and a radical termite poet named Theodore, who soon binds them into a revolutionary group calling itself the Spiders and pledged to spread ideals of love and liberation throughout the world ... Playing with elements from classic children's literature, b-movies, and signature works of such writers as Kafka, Orwell, and Karl Capek, The Spider War is a rich, fast-paced political fable that follows the lonely path of the beetle Sidon Dooling through all the wars that follow, until the night he encounters the gruesome secret rooted far back in insectly history...