A Fire Upon the Deep by Werner Vinci

When building your creatures and plants, think about what eats what? Yes. Waters number one, food is number two. What eats what? And so what are your apex predators? Because there's always going to be one or two. They are generally going to have fewer children than the thing below them. This is just kind of a basic ecology. Is that the right word? That's a good word! All right. I think we'll all stop us here for our Book of the Week, which is A Fire Upon the Deep by Werner Vinci. One of the one of the best science fiction books ever written. It's got a kind of an epic feel to it. Highly recommended