The Aliens Among Us

Nov 2017
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky – Pan Books, 2015 (kindle edition)
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I am pretty certain that the author has a pet tarantula; this is the second book of his to feature sentient arachnids, so he clearly has a thing for them. Unlike Spiderlight, however, this one is a science fiction thriller in the mould of A Fire Upon The Deep, with which it shares more than a passing similarity. And it's good, which makes Tchaikovsky one of the few authors who can challenge Zerothin's Law of Genre-hopping.
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