Dogs of War - Wyrms.de

Paperback, 346 pages

English language

Published Nov. 1, 2022 by Head of Zeus.

ISBN:: 978-1-80024-893-9
Goodreads:: 59919220

Rex is seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. He's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. As a genetically engineered Bioform, Rex is a dealy weapon in a dirty war. But all he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash?

4 editions

Leaving_Marx@wyrmsign.org reviewed Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Dogs of War, #1)

am I a good dog

4 stars

this one came critically praised by the critics. I thought it was a decent enough story, though i just struggled again and again to get lost inside the "head" of a half dog/half human protagonist.

all in all it takes a look at war and miltary hierarchy and the ways this erases the individual and autonomy so it's another decent anarchist adjacent sci-fi but compared so some of tchaikovsky's other novels i am not sure why this series got a trilogy and others stayed as stand alones.

this one came critically praised by the critics. I thought it was a decent enough story, though i just struggled again and again to get lost inside the "head" of a half dog/half human protagonist.

all in all it takes a look at war and miltary hierarchy and the ways this erases the individual and autonomy so it's another decent anarchist adjacent sci-fi but compared so some of tchaikovsky's other novels i am not sure why this series got a trilogy and others stayed as stand alones.

Paul reviewed Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Review of 'Dogs of War' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

As an exploration of what it means to be a person, from the point of view of a 7ft bioengineered dog, this novel is absolutely brilliant. The main character, Rex, is a good dog, and in this novel Adrian Tchaikovsky really does manage to effectively portray this dogs-eye view of the world.

Dogs of War is a very readable novel and one with much to say about sentience, slavery, artificial intelligence, and what happens when all these threads come together.

It really is superb.

Subjects

Fiction
Science Fiction