dht6000@ramblingreaders.org reviewed Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fab
5 stars
Fantastic, love the Dogs of War stuff. This doesn’t quite pin you to your chair like the first one did but still difficult to put down
English language
Published Nov. 14, 2021 by Head of Zeus.
WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS
Jimmy Martin has a sore head.
He's used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him.
The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist.
It also claims to be a bear.
A bear named Honey.
Jimmy has nothing against bioforms - he's one himself, albeit one engineered out of human stock - and works with them everyday in Hell City, building the future, staking mankind's claim to a new world: Mars.
The problem is that humanity isn't the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal.
And Honey is here to make contact with it, whether Jimmy likes it or not.
Fantastic, love the Dogs of War stuff. This doesn’t quite pin you to your chair like the first one did but still difficult to put down