Bee Speaker [Hardcover]

From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered Bioforms have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System.

The end of the world has been and gone.

There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts.

But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees  an outlawed distributed intelligence  survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.

Fast forward to today. A signal  'For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help.'  reaches Mars.

How could they refuse? A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors. And now here they are  three hundred million kilometres from home.

And it has all already gone horribly wrong.

From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of theDOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered Bioforms have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such asElder Race,Doors of Eden,Spiderlightand many others.Children of Timeand its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.

Like much of Mr. Tchaikovsky's work, this series tackles big and timely issues such as freedom, ag