The novel “The Microcolony” by Gordon Williams was published for the first time in 1979. It’s the second book in the Micronauts trilogy and follows “The Micronauts”.

When David Gudenian goes to a tunnel that very few people know about to have some intimacy with Magda Hoessner, he discovers that a fox is dangerously close to the colony. He decides to risk punishment by revealing the danger but his warning is not taken into account and he risks coming to a bad end.

Seeing his situation, David Gudenian decides to rebel and escapes with other people who were prisoners for various violations of the colony’s rules after finding Magda. The new group must venture into a wild territory while in the colony there’s a power struggle. The discovery that Magda is the most important woman in the colony changes everything.