Bear Head

Dogs of War, #2

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Paperback, 389 pages

English language

Published Jan. 15, 2021 by Head of Zeus.

ISBN:: 978-1-80024-156-5
Goodreads:: 55108518

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(28 reviews)

WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS.

Jimmy Marten is used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him. And it's claiming to be a bear. A Bioform bear named Honey.

Jimmy doesn't have a problem with bioforms. He works with them everyday in Hell City, building the future, staking mankind's claim to a new 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.

5 editions

Scrumbles P. Abernathy reviewed Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Finally, fascism in space!

4 stars

For the first two thirds of the book I thought it was going to be a run of the mill techno thriller but then it really took off.

Sci fi often uses technology as a great equalizer and ignores that fascists would use tech just as much as leftists.

Bear Head dives right into this and the horrors it would unleash. If you like Tchaikovsky's other work or like Blake Crouch you should really check this out.