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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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  • dysphoria

    I hate talking. Hearing my disgusting, horrible voice. I wish I could cry but I can't.

    I don't know if this makes sense might be worth mentioning I'm autistic but I've always been very auditory. I've always liked audiobooks, so many good voices. I distinctly remember hating some of their voices and being unable to listen to the book. I'm very sensitive to "bad" noise. I don't really know what other examples to give... I just really love a good voice. The biggest thing I remember about puberty was my voice changing and not liking it. Telling myself I'd grow into it. I never will.

    So now I have to torment myself with voice training. Focusing on my voice is so painful. I know it won't get better unless I do it. It hurts so much though. Its horrible. If voice training even fixes it.

    I'm so sad about it. I really can't express it.

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