Engine City
Yet more Macleod! The cosmonauts and the other humans/hominids/dinosaurs/squid all react to the news that the gods are malevolent after all; the boldest embark on a project of theicide.
Very interesting new aliens: fuzzy octopods ("monkey spiders") with a fractal structure; 8 hands with 8 fingers each, but each finger also has 8 smaller appendages, and so on down to the molecular scale.
