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Became the film Lifeforce.

You are born as a human, a slave of giant spiders that rule the planet.

Classic sci-fi that rewires your brain. Our supremacy as a species was never inevitable.

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This is wonderful. Hard sci-fi but whimsical and full of love, and refreshingly original. A little bit like Ursula K. Le Guin in its exploration of socialism but immeasurably more cheerful and exciting.

Just started reading this. The hero has a friend who is a moose! The moose has friends! Maybe the moose is the hero!

Actually pretty good, better than the first one. Egdod returns, that's all I will say.

Amazing levels of research as always from Robert Harris. Learn history and be entertained at the same time.

"The thing I love about Egan’s work is that neither the scientific ideas nor the narrative are there to carry the other. The idea that humans could exist at seven different scales isn’t present to make a detective story more complicated, nor does the detective story (which turns into a serious political situation) exist simply to enable wild, what-if fantasies. Instead, they work together to make this a genuinely thought-provoking story on both a political and a scientific level."

I found this hard work, I'm not sure why. The self-sacrifice rings true but the isolated research doesn't. My least favourite of the Hainish cycle so far.