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Children of Time
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Mar 06, 2023 marked it as did-not-finish
DNF at 57%

The premise had potential, to wit, a human experiment in genetic engineering goes wrong, resulting in a race of intelligent spiders evolving on a terraformed planet. The spider stuff was interesting, but the human stuff was doing nothing for me whatsoever, partly because I found the main characters in that subplot to be annoying and partly because I found the situation they were in to be implausible. It was getting to be too much of a slog so I sent it back to the library so the 8 peop
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