Not even the time-lord, Orlando Oversight, knows everything. But speculative minds can glimpse real futures, and the Lush Star system, where spider-like beings treat humans as we do animals, isn't such a distant dream away. Do Jack Baker, the self-styled 'Spartacus', and his followers have a future as more than meat and slaves? Will Athalie have the life she hopes for with her hero? And will the 'spider' Boklung hold his business together while funding and organising the Arcraft's voyage across the Milky Way? Spiderworld is another of Richard Bunning's quirky, speculative, science fictions.