Of Men and Spiders

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Description

Scott and his little sister Alice are trapped alone on a forest planet, struggling to survive in primitive conditions as they put what training he gained studying to be an explorer to use building a home for themselves using only their wits and what they can find in the wild to survive. What's worse, there seems to be some sort of huge menacing spider monster following them wherever they go!

She has crash landed on a primitive world and shortly found two odd mammalian tool users. Perhaps they hold the secret to She's survival. For now, She will observe...and maybe protect these two odd creatures as she seeks to understand their ways...

If you read the teaser of this story a while back and wanted more, this is the next series I'm working on! Expect about 3 to 4 chapters a week until it's completed!

For those of you whodowant to check out Of Men and Dragons, but haven't yet, here's a link toBook 1.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2021
Author: DrBlackJack21

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 1,334
Views: 713,365

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Community Reviews(10)

Bakopon2Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Very refreshing read, the novel follows both viewpoints, the spider / superorganism and the brother and sister castaways.
Since it's only 8 chapters for now i can't tell a lot so i'm filling my word count haha
Word count, word count, word count please let me go, word count word count
BuckRodgersRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Combines the Zen of watching Primitive Technology do his building civilization with nothing but a camera and a pair of shorts routine with a brother/sister pair getting investigated and hopefully adopted by a big scary spider mommy.
The only thing I dislike about the story so far is how short it feels but the Author looks to be quickly fixing that issue.
hcpsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So far it's good fun to read with decently sized chapters. The alien perspective is the best part with how they think and the unique way they think or say "She" instead of "her" to hint at a hive mind nature along with the way they referred to their own body.
jean5Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a really awesome story.
The characters, even the alien spider hive all feel pretty good.
There is a lot of adorable moments (like when Alice feels that the giant alien spider are awesome because bugs are awesome, or when Charlotte calls Scott Brother because she learned language from listening to him and his sister) and good tension with the current difficulties of their situation.
I' m really hoping to read more.
joethelesserRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
From the start, to end of chapter 50, this book was a rollercoaster ride of interesting ideas, solid drama, and gripping humanity, even if all those sentients were not human.
We even get real character growth... in 2023?! Who knew!
I highly recommend for all lovers of science fiction. I hope you'll love this one as much as I did.
CommandoShepherdRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This was a wild roller coaster ride of a story. It has tragedy, comedy, epic space battles, and a re evaluation on how we function as a society and communicate. A thousand times better than what modern, or dare I say most science fiction works accomplish. I am glad how things were wrapped up in the end. I hope to read more works from you in the future.
If you get someone to adapt this into a comic, I would definitely buy it.
DefectivebyDesignRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Marooned kids meet marooned space spider, it's pretty good. The early chapters are great, and could be a classic if it doesn't go sideways. Reads like a realistic hfy survival novel. Recommended follow and review.
I didn't initially understand why the spider confuses the humans gender, but then I realized females are generally larger in the animal kingdom, and the spider put no thought into it, especially confusing them to not be sapient. Not recognizing speech to be communication wasn't that realistic though. How does the spider communicate with other species? Never once came across speech? Minor nitpick though, the learning process is still humorous and entertaining. I feel the author put work into making the thought process of a space spider realistic.
LerkeerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Well, I'll be bold and state that you'll be hard pressed to find a better sci-fi novel on this website. This is a professional level writing, that 20 years ago I'd often see in the books in stores. I'd still admit to being extremely biased on my story and character ratings, since I prefer character driven stories.
Fleshed out characters, no real main character, instead slowly adding more and more new characters to the main roster. While we start out with the brother and sister duo, it continues to extend with new acquaintances and old relatives. I was hungry for something along the levels of Amber chronicles character interaction and story progression, and this one scratches that itch. And in a new setting, too. I didn't dabble too deep into sci-fi, and the ones I did rarely compared to novels I used to read in detective/fantasy genres.
Story's pace feels just right, and it doesn't stammer in a single minor conflict for too long. Not everything goes protagonists way, either, while antagonists are a serious threat, not just some dumb mobs. The entire story actually shows impressive humanity's ability to adapt to extreme situations, despite being confronted by an extreme representation of an adaptation. Humanity isn't shown lacking, they're shown in a different light, that for every biological flaw we will find a way to compensate, that for every irredeemable mass murderer there are genuinely nice and positive people. It feels like a lot First Contact novels and shows are based off of either humanity's or other race's complete supremacy in every possible way, but not many show sides being equal while being different interpretations of evolutionary paths and ingenuity to progress beyond skies of their planets.
Meanwhile, we also have subplot of parent-child communication and engagement and how those adults choose to change for their kids, while some won't change even then, actually being more of a threat to life of said kids than a complete stranger.
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Lufie97Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is the first of this author's stories that I am reading and I am quite surprised at how much I am liking it. It's not to the point that I have to read each and every line carefully. I can just skimp over some of the stuff, but the narration and where the story is going is very exciting.
NeiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Excellent writing quality, good premise. A meet-cute between stranded human children and a crash landed hive mind. Hive mind has been mostly about learning and not all-consuming like usual tropes. Story has started with them gradually realizing the other is intelligent, just now getting to the point they realize each other are starfaring civilizations. Looking forward to where it goes.