Mitchell Riley suggested I read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky next, a more recent science fiction novel than what I have been reading lately. I’ve haven’t gotten very deep into it yet, but so far I am enjoying it with a few reservations. The quality of writing, in the literary sense, is somehow still lower than my usual expectations—and the development of human characters is as flimsy and hackneyed as I have come to expect in this genre, but I have to say that the approach to characterising both sentient and non-sentient spiders is actually creative and engaging.
Stay tuned for a future review in my culture blog!