Spiderworld!

[Chromnos]

Spiderworld!

Dissatisfied with the lack of depth in the Drow's relationship with spiders? Want more ideas for nasty spiders in your campaign world. Or do you just want to enjoy some good fiction?

Check out Spider World by Colin Wilson. Though not a bestseller, it is probably one to the best undiscovered books out there. The cool mind powers of both the spiders and the characters within the novel make it unique and extaordinary.

I picked it up on a lark and was really surprised.

Set 500 years in the future, earth's life-forms have undergone a period of rapid evolution. The result is humanity's enslavement by a new race known as the Death Spiders. The Death Spiders use their powerful will to paralyze their victims or dominate their minds.

I'm serious, if you've never heard of Colin Wilson Check this guy out. There are four books in the Spiderworld series- the first is called The Tower.

-C

P.S. If any of you guys have ever come across anything else in fiction that invents some cool and nasty spiders, please let me know. I'm developing a race of spiders for my epic fantasy trilogy and I'm digging around for anything I can find to help me come up with ideas (which is how I happened to run into Spiderworld).

 

[Chromnos]

Vernor Vinge's a Deepness in The Sky is good and so is Starship Troopers (although there were bugs in that one and not just spiders).

-C

 

[Richards]

Sounds like an old episode of "Doctor Who" - in fact, it was the last Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor) episode, "Planet of the Spiders," where he regenerated into the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) at the end. Part of that episode took place on Metebelis 3, a human colony world where the spiders (the "eight-legs") developed psionic powers and enslaved the humans (the "two-legs").

It's amazing the "Doctor Who" trivia I've got stored away in my brain. Others may be Trekkies or Trekkers -- I'll always be a Whovian!

Johnathan

 

[Leopold]

Vernor Vinge's a Deepness in The Sky is good and so is Starship Troopers (although there were bugs in that one and not just spiders).

-C

starship troopers is good if you like military life and bug hunts. I truly is more about the solider than the bugs..

 

[Chromnos]

Ah-

Good ol' Doctor Who. Didn't catch that episode, though.

-C

 

[EOL]

The thing about Starship Troopers is that the first chapter is concievably the best futuristic combat scene ever. But then after that it's mostly a philisophical examination of the best form of government and making the term "citizen-soldier" a reality. I love the book, but the first chapter can be somewhat misleading.

Back on topic I'll have to check out Spiderworld. Also this should probably be in the science fiction, etc. discussion forum, rather than general...

 

[Chromnos]

Arrggghhh. You're right! I should have put it in sci-fi. Ooooppppss.

-C

 

[Leopold]

buying these spider books..better be good..i hate spiders..

 

[Chromnos]

I don't like spiders either, but they make pretty damn cool villians. Colin Wilson also wrote The Outsider which is the bible for Geeks.

-C