Gary Jun 5, 2025

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

Show threadArakinJun 5, 2025

@WiteWulf oh cool, Bees! 🙂

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.

Show threadGary 
@arakin not read that, but added to the read list 👍
Jun 5, 2025 at 1:46pmWeb
Show threadDavidJun 7, 2025
@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.