So… do you have arachnophobia? Wait wait wait… come back and listen, it’s not like you think. Really.
Are you into generation spanning epics? Interested in scientific pioneers full of hubris? Want to see multiple civilizations rise and fall, as alien and familiar at the same time? Want to see life from another set of eight eyes?
Children of Time is a sci-fi novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky is a zoologist, psichologist and writer. This will be important soon.
The premise is simple. What happens when we find someone with which we can’t talk? Can he bridge our differences or are we doomed to failure and mutual destruction?
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I really loved this book. It’s a way out there first contact story, filled with conflict and a surprisingly warm and hopeful message. I’d love to talk about it, so It’s in my best interest for you to go, read it and come back here. If you have not done it already.
It reminded me of other first contact stories like Blindsight (another thread in the making) or the tree body series, but it’s so so so much… lesss… bleak? I really needed that.
PD: English is not my first language, I’m an spaniard, so be patient with me.
This is such an easy recommendation, and I love some of the ideas like how they don't write top to bottom (the alternative is perhaps a little impractical, but very thematic).