The book "Children of Ruin" is the 2nd book in a series about a lot of various Sci-Fi concepts all woven together. It includes traveling through space to escape a dying Earth, a consciousness being absorbed into a machine to create super AI, and a scientist accidentally implanting genes into huge spiders to create a new race of eight-legged intelligent beings. It’s a wild ride. I highly recommend it. At one point in this story, a “mad scientist” character was studying octopuses, and had an in...

The book "Children of Ruin" is the 2nd book in a series about a lot of various Sci-Fi concepts all woven together. It includes traveling through space to escape a dying Earth, a consciousness being absorbed into a machine to create super AI, and a scientist accidentally implanting genes into huge spiders to create a new race of eight-legged intelligent beings. It’s a wild ride. I highly recommend it. At one point in this story, a “mad scientist” character was studying octopuses, and had an in...