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toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Really loved this book, such an interesting premise and it really explores the full depths of everything that it sets up. 

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marsh_mall0w's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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wishbea's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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fatalisticshrug's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Mind blowing!
You follow two stories; The evolution of an entire species on an earth-like planet and the remainder of the human race journeying through space in search of a new home. Both stories span millennia, but the concept makes it possible to still follow them closely. This is brilliant science fiction and a must read for science fiction fans!

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iono's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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micheala's review against another edition

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This book has a really cool premise, in terms of post apocalyptic SciFi. The set up is that humans had started terraforming the galaxy before a nuclear war destroyed all humans living off planet, and threw Earth into an ice age. 

We then get a ship with a few thousand of the remaining humans centuries later, travelling through space (in stais) in the hopes of finding a new home. 

The planet they do eventually arrive at was supposed to be an experiment to "speed run" evolution and create new humans from monkeys + an engineered virus. However, those monkeys died being sent to the planet, and giant senteant  insects evolve instead. 

Cool right? I had a few quibbles with the spider sections (they don't know what humans/earth is, and they don't know about the virus let alone how it functions, so stop talking about it in the narrative portions of their sections; and I was kinda disappointed that their society also was fundamentally sexist and pretty much a 1:1 of humans in the medial ages in terms of society) 

The humans finally get onto the planet, and we get drop kicked into full on horror, specifically graphic body horror. So I noped out of a story I was otherwise enjoying at 37%

If you're cool with horror, I'm guessing this book is going to continue to play with some really interesting ideas, however as someone who cannot deal with horror, it's a DNF for me.

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cirrusfloccus's review

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adventurous challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

"Ein SciFi-Buch über intelligente Spinnen" - so wurde mir Children of Time verkauft, so bin ich beim Lesen da drangegangen. Und es ist auch wirklich das - zu 50%. Genau 50% des Buches (jedes zweite Kapitel) ist über Spinnen, immer intelligenter werdende Spinnen, wie sie langsam eine Gesellschaft und Technologie entwickeln.
Die anderen 50% sind Menschen auf einem Raumschiff, die versuchen eine neue Erde zu finden. Am Anfang dachte ich noch, sie werden mit den Spinnen interagieren, aber das tun sie nur in zwei Kapiteln des gesamten Buches. (Auch die Kurzbeschreibung ist so geschrieben, dass man denkt, dass die Menschen und die Spinnen tatsächlich interagieren werden.)

Insgesamt hatte ich das Gefühl, das der Entstehungsprozess ungefähr so abgelaufen sein muss:
 Autor: Ich will ein Buch über intelligente Spinnen schreiben!
 Verlag: Okay, wenn du es SciFi machen kannst.
 Autor: Ich hab eine Idee entwickelt, wie die Grundlage, warum die Spinnen intelligent sind, SciFi ist.
 Verlag: Nein, wir brauchen mehr Raumschiffe! Und Krieg! Zwischen Menschen! Sonst ist es keine *echte* Science Fiction.
 Enttäuschend. 

Wenn man darüber hinwegsieht, ist das Buch echt gut. Obwohl die Entwicklung der Spinnen über Generationen hinweg erzählt wird, hat der Autor es geschafft, nachvollziehbare Charaktere zu schaffen.
 Bei den Menschen sind es eher durchgängig dieselben Charaktere - aber dennoch ausgearbeitet, mit Persönlichkeiten. Man nimmt wirklich an ihrem Leben Teil - bei den Spinnen liest es sich, trotz Mühen, eher wie ein Bericht. (Alles andere halte ich aber auch für unmöglich, wenn man ständig Jahre springt.) 

Trotzdem ist es irgendwie kein einzelnes Buch - es sind zwei, in eins gepresst und dann abwechselnd erzählt. Ich weiß nicht, ob die Zielgruppe für "will gleichzeitig ein Buch über intelligente Spinnen und über Menschen, die eine neue Erde suchen, lesen" existiert, aber ich bin sie jedenfalls nicht.
Sollte sich jemand, wie ich, für die Spinnen interessieren, würde ich das Buch immer noch empfehlen - ich würde nur dazu empfehlen, jedes zweite Kapitel zu überspringen. 

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garrettrook's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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vicky3's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0


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