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Sentient spiders (lemmy.world)
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I've just finished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. It was amazing and coincidentally my two last books where children of time(1 and 2) and (as to not spoil the reveal) a certain book involving spiders/crabs that live in high pressure environment.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the theme I have going on even if it was purely accidental, what would be some good recommendations involving sentient spider to pursue next?

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[–] papajohn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you read It by Stephen King? Not really Scifi but there is a spider in there!

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've read a couple of his books but never IT for some reason. I'm bound to get back on the Stephen King wagon eventually, I'll start with that one.

[–] papajohn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh man, I totally forgot. Expeditionary Force is so good! Its funny like hitch hikers guide to the galaxy but more modern and the writing is not as clever. But there is a HUGE story arc dealing with super smart spiders. I listened to it and I’m pretty sure it was made for audiobooks first.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's horror but I think It is some kinda extea diminisional being.

I guess what I'm saying is a lot of King's stories are horror but with a bit of sci-fi (Under the Dome and Dreamcatcher for instance probably cross the line into being Sci-fi tbh).