>higher dimensional entity's home is attacked by the zōtl>intelligent flying spiders who survive by pithing the brains of other species, enslaving them and releasing hormones that cause intense agony and pain while keeping the host body lucid>entity enters our space, creating a solar system and populating it with humans, as bait to lure out and genocide the zōtl in retaliationThe zōtl are the nastiest creatures I have encountered in fiction. Now this is not any overt prison-planet loosh-like allusion to our real world but considering the subject material, I am surprised Attanasio has next to no mentions on the archives.ITT: Rec and discuss /x/-themed fantasy and sci-fi.
