I’ve just finished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. It was amazing and coincidentally my two last books where children of time(1 and 2) and (as to not spoil the reveal) a certain book involving spiders/crabs that live in high pressure environment.
I’m thoroughly enjoying the theme I have going on even if it was purely accidental, what would be some good recommendations involving sentient spider to pursue next?
The aliens in the Three-body Problem trilogy are never described, but the unofficial sequel, Redemption of Time, retroactively describes them as bugs with some hive mind, I think. It’s interesting to go back to the trilogy with that in mind, as it really makes a lot of sense.
Dragon’s Egg apparently has some hyperintelligent bug-like creatures that live on a neutron star in an accelerated time frame. I hear it’s a good book, haven’t gotten to it yet.
And I think The Chessmen of Mars has some spider-like things… I.e. aliens that look like spiders with large heads.
Read dragons egg. It’s a little dated but a great story.