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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  • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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    4 hours ago

    it amounts to just rolling over and letting cisnormativity win imo. telling people they're probably trans is fine and good and should be a go-to. if they turn out to not be then there's no major harm done, at worst you've gotten someone to think a bit more about their gender which is good. if they are trans then you've saved a life from repression or worse. people are conditioned to think there's no other option than being cis, a lot of the time they need direct telling that there is. now i can imagine it's not being done with the most tact and compassion through tiktok comments. i quit tiktok last year mainly because of the dog shit takes on there about queer issues. so there's obviously a right and a wrong way to approach it but "prime directive" seems regressive to me. I don't buy into that at all.