← Back to search
Content levels
ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone
Trigger warnings
Animal HarmGriefEnvironmental Destruction
Positive tags
Self-DiscoveryFound FamilyHealing ArcHopeful Ending
Tropes
BiopunkGenetic EngineeringDystopiaIsolated CommunityEnvironmental CollapseFirst ContactSoft SF
Themes
Environmental DegradationChange and AdaptationCommunitytradition vs progressLoss of InnocenceHarmony with NatureComing Disaster
Synopsis
A haunting green island. A stand of trees known as the Golden Grove. In the moonlit darkness, the webs gleam faintly, stirring in the warm night breeze. Arachne and the women sit at their looms around the Grove, weaving tapestries from the silk of the golden spiders, tapestries of life and time, clarity and light, the pattern of their world... But the Grove is dying. The spiders are sick--their offspring disfigured, their webs malformed. The mysterious aura is waning, the peace and harmony fading. Shadow falls over Island, strange ships are seen on the horizon, and Arachne fears that the pattern is about to change...forever.
Tags
Literary SFEcological SFFeminist SF