Jimmy Martin has a sore head.
He's used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him.
The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist.
It also claims to be a bear.
A bear named Honey.Jimmy has nothing against bio forms - he's one himself, albeit one engineered out of human stock - and works with them every day in Hell City, building the future, staking mankind's claim to a new world: Mars.
The problem is that humanity isn't the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal.
And Honey is here to make contact with it, whether Jimmy likes it or not.
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We're off to the perimeter, heading uphill on our little Loonie towards where a canopy tether should be - but - Damage Central tells us - isn't. 1, JIMMY
(@HoZ_Books, 7 January 2021, ebook, 400 pages, borrowed from @AmazonKindle, #PrimeReading)
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I've enjoyed other books by the author and Bear Head sounded like something I'd enjoy. I didn't realise this was the second book in a series so will likely read the first book to get the full picture. It took a while to get into the book and this might be because I haven't read Dogs of War. I thought this was a terrific read even if I didn't fully understand what the book was about. I liked the world-building, the characters and the humour.
