Subject: Have you read this weird book I read when I was a kid?
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Posted on: 2019-01-14 14:36:00 UTC
I found Larklight on a bookshelf in my classroom in... oh, say fourth grade? fifth? Probably round about then.
I don't remember much about it, but I distinctly remember it being... weird. Really distinctly weird.
-It's about two twins that live in a house that orbits the moon.
-They get a visit from "Mr. Webster" of the "Royal Xenological Society," who is a giant white spider who's trying to kill them and take the house.
-The rest of the book features them attacking the giant spiders from beyond the solar system.
-There are moon moths that grab them when they escape the house.
-And alien pirates.
-Did I mention that this is all set in some weird steampunk 1700s-esque era where the British empire is a spacegoing power that travels through the Aether?
-Colonists to Venus got turned into trees by pollination, through some kind of disease.
It is trippy as all heck. Like, almost as much as Sharkboy and Lavagirl, but it feels a hell of a lot more well-developed. And it's so bizarrely memorable that I still remember it despite having probably not read or even seen it in almost a decade.