Trans Megathread for the Week of 2025-01-06 to 2025-01-12 - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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 le-monke 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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Finally have my fertility preservation consult later today. I hope the process is quick from this point on because putting HRT on hold for a month for this was not very cash money. Just let me in the hospital goon closet a couple times so I don't have to worry about this anymore
- I just couldn't be bothered, maybe I will regret that later but also whatever. Respect to everyone who wants kids but I figure if I ever get my shit together to that degree we'll figure something out
  
  CW: sad
  
  really tragic, like death
  
  I (parasocially, but like a real small community) knew someone who passed away (of unrelated illness) before getting on HRT, in large part because she couldn't afford the fertility stuff and was saving up for it. And while she was still living her life and was still out and transitioned for years at that point (a real inspiration to me on that front tbh) and I'm sure wouldn't have wanted anyone to see her as some tragic case that died waiting for hrt, I couldn't help but be influenced a bit by that memory.

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