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An aside, but Adrian Tchaikovsky‘s Children of Ruin/Time center on intelligent spiders and mollusks. Earth-centric as they were bio-engineered from Earth native
by bwi4 7y ago
An aside, but Adrian Tchaikovsky‘s Children of Ruin/Time center on intelligent spiders and mollusks. Earth-centric as they were bio-engineered from Earth native species, but an interesting take on non-human species.
- livueta 7y agoIf we're name-dropping, the Vernor Vinge pack-mind dog things are another fun example of non-human races with actually non-human modes of cognition, even if they're not as far removed as Solaris/Revelation Space sentient oceans. In contrast, although I really liked A Deepness in the Sky for other reasons, the spiders ended up feeling way too much like humans in funny bodies rather than any kind of actual non-human intelligent species.