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Ever since reading Children of Time, have never thought of Portia Spiders the same way again. Read it back to back with Blindsight, and it really shifted my v
by FrustratedMonky 2y ago
Ever since reading Children of Time, have never thought of Portia Spiders the same way again. Read it back to back with Blindsight, and it really shifted my view of consciousness.
And even current societies concepts of male/female. In Children of Time the Portia Spiders are Female dominant, and eat the males. Scale that up to an intelligent society and it was pretty interesting perspective change to see female characters debating if they should go hunt some males for dinner. And later discussing 'rights' and "of course males can't be equal, can't they just be happy if we let them live.."
- joshstrange 2y agoI hate spiders (yes, I know the value they provide, I can't get over how much they creep me out) but I loved the Children of Time series and also I just re-read A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) which is also a favorite of mine. I'm not sure I could handle a movie of either but the books are great since I can forget they are "spiders".
- joshmarlow 2y agoWell I loved A Deepness in the Sky and Blindsight so now I'm adding Children of Time to my ever growing list.
- romaintailhurat 2y agoA very nice book indeed, and i also recommend the following tomes
- ben_w 2y agoI suspect that A Deepness in the Sky would work best as animation, to emphasise the same plot point that had the spiders using familiar human nouns and only reveal the graphical truth at the same time in the story we find out the literary truth. (I vaguely remember something like this happening with a monster's POV section in Schlock Mercenary, but that's a long web comic and I can't remember when in it's history to look for).
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoThe arc starts here: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-01 https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-01 It switches POV here: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-22 https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-10-22
- ben_w 2y agoYup, that's the one I had in mind.
- monkeycantype 2y agointeresting connection between the mindrot from that book and the warfighter alertness link posted today that uses IR light to target drug activation in specific parts of the brain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707093 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707093 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
- pvaldes 2y agoAnd here is the obligatory Children of time mention. Beer shot