Children of Ruin, by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I finally read "Children of Ruin", the sequel to "Children of Time," i.e. "spiders in space!", this time with more spiders in space, and more fascinating species. In fact book 2 is quite similar to book 1 but with everything turned up a notch or two, and I mean that in the most positive sense. (There's more horror too. I'm not a fan of horror because I tend to get nightmares. …I'll see how I sleep tonight.)

( Spiders and more )

This is the best kind of science fiction :)