Really looking forward to Adrian Tchaikovsky's new book, Bee Speaker, that's out tomorrow.

It's the third book in a series that started with Dogs of War and followed with Bear Head. They're really clever books about enhanced bioform weaponry, enhanced animals effectively, that look at slavery, free will and individualism. To me, they felt a lot like William Gibson, in both style and setting.

Bear Head was an unexpected sequel to Dogs of War, and I'm interested to see where he goes with Bees

@WiteWulf oh cool, Bees! πŸ™‚

No surprise that I'm a fan of the series (and also the Children of Time series).

Dogs of War made me think of the graphic novel We3 - where cybernetic cat, dog and rabbit super weapons escape a lab.

Oh, and then there's the Elephantmen graphic novel series, with anthropomorphic human-animal hybrids created to fight a proxy war now freed and with a protagonist detective hippo guy.

@arakin not read that, but added to the read list πŸ‘
@WiteWulf @arakin Adrian featured on two panels I went to at #cymera2025 today. Can confirm Bee Speaker is out in physical form. I didn't get it because I haven't started that series yet, but I got Service Model - then had to abandon his highly popular signing queue to go meet my family.

@WiteWulf I loved Dogs of War, Bear Head a bit less so, but I'm really looking forward to reading this one.

It's out today though, as far as I know (at least in ebook, but I saw Waterstones mention it too).

@JigsawPieces Bear Head was a very different book, I respected him making a real handbrake turn with the setting
@WiteWulf Just finished it. I really enjoyed it! Hope you did / will, too πŸ˜ƒ

@JigsawPieces not even started it yet πŸ˜€

As the last of the Book of Dust books is out in August, I decided to do a re-read of His Dark Materials, and the first two Dust novels. That’s keeping me busy.

@WiteWulf I haven't read *any* of those ... only watched the TV series (which I was pretty great). Maybe one day!
@WiteWulf Not even started this series yet. Dude writes too many books... πŸ˜‰
@pythoneer I only read his SF stuff, and that’s hard enough to keep up with! The whole Shadow of the Apt series is *huge*