Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named “Kern’s World”, where the plan is to release monkeys le-monke infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern’s World hoping to find paradise.


also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good


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    hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i’ll add you to the list!

    the list as it stands:

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    Still feel self conscious enough to stop my self from using feminine mannerisms around other people, but now it comes with guilt over not asserting myself 🫠

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    I tried speed dating and this is about how it went:

    Them: Says some presumably interesting anecdote about themselves but I can’t hear them

    Me: “WHAT?”

    repeat for two hours

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    I’m booking an appointment and the only gender neutral honorific is Dr. So fuck it, if you have to call me something, call me Doctor Moss. Doc Moss is acceptable.

    Unironically wish I could put in Comrade instead of Mr or Miss or whatever

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    Fucked up rn but felt kinda weird about “ze/hir” lately despite them being rad asf pronouns imho

    Think I’m still mostly a “they/them” but being a “she/her” trans femme on occasion mite b cool

    You know, just to cement the “lol definitely not a guy” feeling home

    Or fuck, could I possibly be a binary trans woman instead of a weird enby that I’ve been living as for like a decade now???

    Fuck idk

    catgirl-flop

    Idk maybe refer to me with she/her for awhile and I’m seeing if that’s actually right or not, sorry

    Like I came out gender wise as a trans woman initially a long time ago, then felt more comfortable being nonbinary, and I guess now I’ve kinda done full circle?

    I dunno

    I’m queer

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    and my junk is small