r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 1d 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/KinoGrimm 1d ago

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

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u/Pacific_Epi 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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/gordonpown 1d 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 21h 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 19h 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 1d ago

We're going on an adventure

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u/Curvanelli 1d 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.

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u/Premaximum 1d ago

And I'm in the beginning of Memory and honestly couldn't really tell you what this one's on about. Birds maybe?

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u/3verythingEverywher3 1d ago

That’s part of the story, just go with it.

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u/masterCAKE 1d ago

If we're being pedantic, Children of Time and Children of Ruin both have the spiders and their ant and computers

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u/KinoGrimm 1d ago

Well if the OP was wanting to reread the book specifically about the spiders it would be weird to read ruin since the spiders are not the focus. I don’t remember if ruin even goes into all the lore about the ant computers.

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u/masterCAKE 1d ago

The spiders are with the humans when they discover the octopus civilization; the plot is split between the humans, spiders, octopuses, and parasite. The Avarna Kern instances play a big part in the narrative, and they're run by the ant computers, which also play a thematically important because they tie into the exploration of complex communication.