Humanity engineers an uplift virus to accelerate evolution and colonize alien worlds. The experiment goes wrong, creating a civilization of uplifted spiders over thousands of years while human civilization collapses. Epic hard sci-fi examining evolution, consciousness, and inheriting a broken world.
What readers sayAbout Children of Time.
Spider civilization was genuinely alien—not humans in exoskeletons. Watching how they think differently was mind-bending.
The backstory of how humanity fell hit me harder than expected. Made me reconsider what progress really means.
Great worldbuilding and creative premise. The ancient AI character felt underdeveloped compared to the spiders.
The time scales involved—thousands of years of evolution compressed—gave me vertigo in the best way.
First contact between humans and uplifted spiders could've gone wrong so easily. Their pragmatism was refreshing.
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