I have been reading The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky and one of the story interludes sounds like a fun tie-in to the Warp Shell universe. The book is a sci fi setting with multiple universes all containing the planet earth on which various life forms evolve to dominance. In each world a different creature has intellectual dominance for example apes evolved in our earth into people, but an adjacent world contains mice or velociraptors as an intelligent, technology-wielding species. The barriers between these worlds is crumbling and the cast of heroes must work to prevent this throughout the story.
Between chapters, the author introduces different worlds briefly and describes their evolution, and eventual success or downfall as a species. One such interlude describes a species of arthropod which evolves enough to take an active role in their own evolution and eventually reach for the stars by evolving themselves to be directly space-fairing creatures. I thought it was such a cool story and I wondered if anyone else saw any ICRPG overlap.
Really the only overlap is space-fairing arthropods, and a penchant for crossing universes. The crossover in the story feels very much like an RPG where the party feels like a bit of a mash-up as each PC brings a bit of a different feel from each player,
