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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  • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]
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    1 day ago

    Me working at sega"Alright, so new plan we start a new sonic game but we don't remake green hill zone no-copyright my last words before being thrown out a window

    • Eco [she/her, he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 day ago

      sonic x green hill generations and it's just every version of green hill zone. and that's the game

      • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]
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        1 day ago

        You jest but it's gonna become that, something something mark fishers capital realism but with green hill zone

        • Eco [she/her, he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 day ago

          it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of green hill zone remakes no-copyright