Tchaikovsky has, to my mind, done everything but actually give the character the name Donald Trump or make any mention of his hair!ĭespite the borrowing of Trump (or maybe partly because of it) this is an excellent book. Thompson, a wannabe senator (and global dictator?) who simply has to have been modelled (without much disguise) on Donald Trump, especially considering the publication date of 2021. After a period of initial support from most humans, this support has now started to swing the other way, particularly in regard to the distributed intelligences, Bees and HumOS, and largely led by the antagonist Warner S. Mars has been colonised using both biofroms (adapted and enhanced animals derived from the bioform soldier-animals of the first book) and heavily adapted humans (strong echoes of Pohl’s Man Plus here). Bear Head is a sequel to the excellent Dogs of War, though it is a very different book told largely from the perspective of Honey, the over-intelligent bioform bear from the previous book, and the PA of the main antagonist.
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