Wednesday reading

Oh look! It's Wednesday, it's before I start work (... barely), so I can do this.


What I'm reading now: Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, a science fiction novel that follows two parallel stories: on the one hand, the story of spiders on a terraformed planet who are "elevated" by a nanovirus that had been intended to speed-evolve monkeys (the monkeys all died), and on the other, the last remnants of humanity, on a ... not quite generation ship, but one of those ships where you spend all y...