book: The Children of Time , Adrian Tchaikovsky

a brilliantly thought-out piece ruminating on sentience in non-humanoid organisms. How would a creature with different senses and a different body plan organise their society? The pitch I was given was spoiler-free (it doesn't even scratch the surface of the actual goings-on of the book) so I'll paraphrase it here. Tchaikovsky describes a future humanity that seeks to create new humans out of…