'The nuance of the story could easily have been lost in imagery of massive animals running impossible missions, but Tchaikovsky is a skilled navigator and guides us deftly along to a very satisfying conclusion. This book is great, read it' Just a Guy Who Likes to Read. 'A novel which takes war and broadens the concept to include peacetime ramifications of this new frontier technology through sociopolitical commentary which in turn gives the characters and theme a 360 feel delivered through a multi POV narrative. With Dogs of War, Adrian Tchaikovsky has managed the near impossible and delivered both masterfully' The Eloquent Page. My higher self is looking for a plot that forces me to engage my brain and think. 'When it comes to science fiction, my primitive brain always craves action and pretty explosions. Speculative fiction at its best' Starburst magazine. 'Tchaikovsky is a phenomenal author, a modern powerhouse of fiction. 'A timely warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence and super weapons in the hands of unscrupulous powers' Guardian. 'The novel thoughtful and emotionally affecting, yet also exciting and unpredictable' SFX 5* review. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human' Patrick Ness.
'This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio' Financial Times. A gripping dive into bioethics and artificial intelligence' New Scientist. (Nov.'Rex, a 2-metre-tall bioengineered dog, is one of the most achingly human characters I have ever encountered in an SF novel. The detailed and clever worldbuilding more than justifies a sequel, and Tchaikovsky pulls of an impressive feat in making Rex’s character evolution genuinely moving. Redmark has been retained to suppress anarchist terrorists there, but as Rex comes to suspect that some of those he and his unit have slaughtered were innocents, he must weigh his desire to be a “Good Dog” for his masters against his desire to do real good. His obedience is tested on a mission in Campeche, Mexico.
Rex is the leader of the Redmark corporation’s Asset Protection team, whose other members include an augmented swarm of bees, a weaponized bear, and a dragonlike lizard.
This “Good Dog” is almost eight feet tall, with guns mounted on both shoulders and “super-dense muscles, impact-resistant fibres in his skin, hollow bones that were strong as titanium.” In short, he was made for combat. I am a Good Dog”-Tchaikovsky appeals to the cliché of a pet desperate for approval, which proves grimly ironic as Rex’s true nature is revealed. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky ( Children of Time) takes readers inside the mind of a weaponized bioengineered animal in this imaginative triumph, the first in a series.
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