Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
In the distant future, humanity seeks to create new habitats for itself on distant planets, terraforming them and seeding them with life. Dr. Avrana Kern is heading one such project, orbiting the tentatively named “Kern’s World”, where the plan is to release monkeys 
infected with a nanovirus that will accelerate their evolution. Through an act of sabotage from an anti-technology group that has also destroyed much of Earth, the monkeys are never released, and the virus instead infects a species of spider, Portia labiata. The book follows the evolution of the spiders and their eventual civilisation, as well as a remnant of humanity that fled to Kern’s World hoping to find paradise.
also children of ruin and children of memory, the sequels, are really good
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Lord help me quit TikTok. I’m so tired of the weird prescriptivism that invades queer discourse there. And what happened to the trans prime directive? Every single video with someone saying eggy shit is full of comments just telling that person they’re trans and to start hormones. And it understandably freaks people out. It’s the same 3 egg jokes over and over and the person gets absolutely no support because people are too busy making inside jokes. Not to mention everyone jumping straight to the person being not only trans, but binary trans.
imo the trans prime directive is lame but there’s definitely a right way and a wrong way to go about things. and can’t imagine being bombarded by tiktok comments is the right way
Can you say more? I can understand why you’d ignore it if it’s someone you know whose asking you pretty directly, but other than that it seems valid to me.
doesn’t seem like shit has changed since i uninstalled. i think people on there are too conditioned to the whole “follow up video resolves everything” thing, so expect to see someone fully come to terms with an earth-shattering concept like being trans on-demand (lol maybe they should all read Nevada). egg prime directive should seriously be respected tho
i’ve actually been so much happier after getting off the app but finding things that fill the attention void is the most challenging part. i support your endeavour to quit
I just uninstalled. I’ll let you know if I make it more than a day before reinstalling haha