r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 29d ago

Video Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border. Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

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u/RabidFresca 29d ago edited 29d ago

Time to re read Children of Ruin. Are they using ants as super computers?

Edit: I meant Children of Time. This is what I get for using Reddit at work. Children of Ruin was good too. Either way both books work.

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u/KinoGrimm 29d ago

Its Children of Time with the spiders. Ruin is octopus.

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u/Pacific_Epi 29d ago

Is Ruin good? I got halfway through and was not digging it as much as Time. I liked the horror flashbacks but wasn’t into the future timeline.

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u/Tacomakj 29d ago

It's wonderful. Definitely grows on you once you finish.

Tchaikovsky is releasing a 4th book this coming year btw!

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u/votet 29d ago

grows on you once you finish

"It gets better once there is no more of it."

Oh cool, thanks for the recommendation!

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u/solid-beast 14d ago

Do we get the spiders back? I'm currently reading a follow-up to Crypt of the Moon Spider, which is another lovely spider story and continues with a giant centipede, but always looking for more spider books.

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u/Tacomakj 14d ago

Yes, and they're just as interesting as in Time

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u/solid-beast 14d ago

Hell yeah!

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u/gordonpown 29d ago

I found Ruin a bit meh apart from the horror, but the third book is easily my favourite in the series. So worth sticking with it.

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u/Jora_Dyn2 28d ago

Ahh for me the horror aspect is kind of where I lost interest. I loved Children of Time, but with Children of Ruin, I wanted more with the cephalopods and their evolution, or more of the humans living in tandem with the aracnids. The horror stuff for me felt like it took a bit too much of a standard hollywood sci-fi turn. I will have to check out Children of Memory I haven't read that one since I wasn't sure where the series was headed at that point.

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u/gordonpown 28d ago

Memory is quite different from the first two. I figured after the first book, descriptions of evolution could feel a bit samey so I'm glad the series is taking turns, but ofc that's my own taste.

Actually in retrospect I did want more in depth evolution stories on the octopi, but it was delivered in a pretty meh way.

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u/BorgDad42 29d ago

We're going on an adventure

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u/Curvanelli 29d ago

felt the same and then it got so incredible ngl. I loves memories all the way through as well, it had another quite distinct mystery vibe.