Dans la toile du temps

Earth is dead, and the ark ship Gilgamesh carries the last frozen dregs of humanity toward a green world terraformed long ago for human life. But the uplift virus meant to raise clever apes fell instead on spiders, and over thousands of years they have woven webs into cities, science and gods, while a watchful voice still orbits above them. Classicist Holsten Mason wakes from cold sleep to translate an ancient signal and finds paradise already taken. With fuel failing and nowhere else to go, frightened humans and brilliant spiders stare at each other across the void. Only one claim can hold.