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I finished last week. This was such a good story. The passage of time was just daunting to me. At one point neat the end Laine mentions that the Gil is about 2500 years old. By than Kearn was in her tomb for a couple thousand years....I just wonder at the generations of spiders from the first Portia, Bianca and Fabian to the three by the time they made that journey to the "star". I will be reading the next book. I just need some time to process this amazing story.
Jennifer wrote: "I will be reading the next book. I just need some time to process this amazing story...."Me too - it's been a while and I'm still processing. But I've bought the next book, which is high praise from a heavy library user like me :)
I just finished the second one - if anyone wants to chat about it let me know. :) Octopuses!
Bretnie, well, that's the most ominous one-word review I've ever seen! (One has to have read the first book, though.) it'll go on the list.
Mark wrote: "Bretnie, well, that's the most ominous one-word review I've ever seen! (One has to have read the first book, though.) it'll go on the list."The word 'octopuses' is a magnet for me - not that I wasn't already magnetized by reading the first book :)
SIGH: Reading Children of Ruin, I just realized WHY Portia earned her name. Her species is Portiid. I may be slow... (Also, the first four pages of the seventh chapter is a complete synopsis of Children of Time - from the Portiid's perspective.)
Mark wrote: "SIGH: Reading Children of Ruin, I just realized WHY Portia earned her name. Her species is Portiid. I may be slow... (Also, the first four pages of the seventh chapter is a complete synopsis of Chi..."I don't think I'd ever have known where her name came from without your post ;) I've bought Children of Ruin, but by the time I get to it, I'm sure I'll appreciate the first 4 pages.....
Hee hee, the drawn-out-over-time nature of the discussion reflects the plot. Let's hope we don't need to use suspended animation to follow it though.
Mark wrote: "Hee hee, the drawn-out-over-time nature of the discussion reflects the plot. Let's hope we don't need to use suspended animation to follow it though."Isn't that kinda terrifying ? Susended animation for thousands of years.
Kirkus Prize finalist, An Immense World by Ed Yong also discusses the vision of portias along with explaining sense capabilities of various other species in very clear and digestible prose stressing differences from human senses and how each critter's perception of their world or environment varies.
I somehow missed this discussion but I read both books and according to my GR reviews, they were compelling. I may have to reread them, as I don't quite remember how Children of Ruin ended.
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (other topics)The Bees (other topics)
The Ants (other topics)
I also think about the pasage of time. I wonder how long the life span of the spiders are. Some species of spider on Earth proper can live a long time.
This spider lived to be 43 in the wild:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...