I’ve been reading (listening to, actually) “Children of Ruin” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The story involves dna modified octopi (octopuses?) who are in many ways advanced beyond human capabilities.
His description of the way their internal cognitive processes work (the connection between their “crown” brain and the separate brains in their arms, collectively their “reach”), their behavior, their motivations and their means of communications is so intriguing, imaginative and absolutely believable - it’s just fascinating, I can’t stop thinking about it. He must have done a lot of research and extrapolated from there.
There are other imagined alien species in the story, also well imagined, but those octopi really blew my mind. I’ll never be able to see an octopus again without visualizing them in the way he has.
I’ve been reading (listening to, actually) “Children of Ruin” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The story involves dna modified octopi (octopuses?) who are in many ways advanced beyond human capabilities.
His description of the way their internal cognitive processes work (the connection between their “crown” brain and the separate brains in their arms, collectively their “reach”), their behavior, their motivations and their means of communications is so intriguing, imaginative and absolutely believable - it’s just fascinating, I can’t stop thinking about it. He must have done a lot of research and extrapolated from there.
There are other imagined alien species in the story, also well imagined, but those octopi really blew my mind. I’ll never be able to see an octopus again without visualizing them in the way he has.