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

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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.

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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.

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Out of curiosity, what is that spoilered book?

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Naming the book would be a spoiler because the spoiler was already described. The only way to not spoil the book is to not know what book it is that was spoiled in the description.

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Expeditionary force has spiders as the alpha race of the galaxy. 15 books.

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One of the alien species in Matter by Iain M Banks is a spider like insectoid.

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I’ve seen matter recommend on this sub not too long ago, I’ll give it a go. Thanks!

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