Now that everyone is back from the brink of death, I think it's time to leave this city.

[oddmonster]

#79: Insurrection: War of the Spider Queen, Book 2 by Thomas M. Reid:"Betrayer!" Sspiriina spat back. "I should have known better than to trust you, Khorrl Xornbane. You can die with the meddlers. Kill them," she cried to her few remaining soldiers, who were massing in a line. "Kill them all

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[catyah]

Then the giant spiders arrive.

Okay, just out of curiosity, now -- what IS the deal with fantasy/sci-fi novels and the phenomenon of the giant spider? I just don't dig those spiders, man...
(See 'Day-O' by Stan Freberg.)

Not that I'm objecting or finding fault with the writers, I just don't get it.

[oddmonster]

I wonder if it's a very literal way of making a commonly shared fear that much scarier. Because if people don't like small spiders, or are scared by them, finding a foot-wide spider in the bath is going to amplify that fear based on the size. So if they then look out the window and see a spider the size of a Subaru strolling by, it's brown pants time.

Just a theory.