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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  • shallot [undecided]
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    10 hours ago

    As janky as slack can be on occasion, and as much as I’d prefer zero electron apps whatsoever, I’m really glad my team still uses slack. Teams(new)(new)(final)(new) is so much worse. Down with MS.

    E: salesforce too, of course. Just that their UX is slightly less openly terrible.

    • bolshevikLovelace [she/her, love/loves]
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      2 hours ago

      yeah if you couldn't tell, our dept decommissioned slack last year... it wasn't perfect but jfc 100% ms teams is hell

      hard agree on salesforce, i think i just hate all corporate software. i dream of a world where workers can choose their own tools lea-resigned