Dorval, QC, Canada — Cyborg Insect Books is proud to announce that the 2023 sales of all three novels of The Antunite Chronicles trilogy by Terry Birdgenaw have increased to ten times the level sold in 2022.

Like the classical stories Animal Farm, Brave New World, and 1984, to which reviewers have made comparisons, Birdgenaw’s novels Autuna’s Story, The Rise and Fall of Antocracy, and Antunites Unite are young adult allegories that promote diversity and inclusiveness while condemning anti-democratic, authoritarian, and war-mongering leadership. Despite the book banning inspired by Florida’s recent anti-woke laws, librarians in Florida and in the deep south states have dramatically driven increased sales of the books in Birdgenaw’s trilogy. Cyborg Insect Books observed a recent upsurge in book sales for The Antunite Chronicles coincided with a targeted push to American deep south libraries, as well as those in Arizona, California, and Colorado.

Antuna’s Story follows the lives of Earth insects transported through a wormhole to a far-off planet called Poo-ponic. Young Antuna encourages the settlers to cooperate, but in time conflicts resume. Despite her convictions, Antuna can not save her diverse friends from the devastation of war. Yet her legacy of Antunite insectism endures.

The Rise and Fall of Antocracy is an Animal Farm-like story that tracks the insects’ evolution to cyborg insects, the growth and decline of a fledgling democracy, and the destruction of life on the planet caused by a long-ignored climate crisis. It also follows the utopian society created by a group of cyborg insects that escape to Poo-ponic’s moon, Bilaluna, before the planet’s fragile atmosphere collapses.

The rulers in Antunites Unite, create an Orwellian society that uses histrionics, bionics, and socionics to subjugate its citizens. An allegorical dystopian tale like 1984, it’s a brave new world out of this world, where freedom-loving spies from the nearby moon, Bilaluna, infiltrate the colony and start a revolution.

Although Birdgenaw riddled the novels with details about insect behavior, he is not an entomologist. Yet his Ph.D. studies in neuroscience and psychology allow him to understand human behavior and what makes autocrats tick. Insect and human behavior are quite similar, as both work together to enhance survival and fight those seen as different. Humans have the same core motivations as their tiny neighbors underfoot, wanting to squash those seen as others, but librarians seem determined to buck that trend. Visit the author at https://TerryBirdgenaw.WordPress.com