Killer pine

Surprisingly good.

I picked it up with some old SFBC editions without knowing what it was about, and it's frankly ludicrous: miniaturised people are delivered to a tree in an area experiencing some kind of pine-tree devastation to try to find what's causing it.

They fight insects. They scale sheer woodfaces. They live in a matchbox for heaven's sake.

But there's something about the writing style that's great. Dated, yes. Oddly-specific, yes. Engaging? Yes.