Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named “Kern’s World”, where the plan is to release monkeys 
infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern’s World hoping to find paradise.
also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good
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eventually i WILL have seven
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I love that Khizuo is making rad characters and creative shit though
I’m working on a creative thing too and would love to get some feedback at some point too if any of you would like that
i’d be interested in seeing it! although idk how available i would be to offer too much substantive critique. but i love seeing other peoples’ creative projects!
It’s a fanfic/trying to be canon Halo thing that I want to make into a full fledged standalone fan game/mod like SPV3, probably built in the Reach engine but I need to build a better PC and learn Assembly to make it but I’m working on my script and have some cool ideas imo
(For the Halo heads, Rosenda-A344 is a major character and finally gets her time in the spotlight, and it’s about what she and the other team she was assigned to were up to when Col. Holland swapped her out for Emile-A239 on NOBLE-team prior to the fall of Reach. I have my cast of characters and a basic plot outline and a couple vertical slice type gameplay things planned that I think will be cool, one with a dope soundtrack synced to the dialogue and encounter that I’m really looking forward to bringing to fruition)