Showing posts with label Tchaikovsky (Adrian). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tchaikovsky (Adrian). Show all posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

REVIEW: Dogs of War (book) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Dogs of War is science fiction. I bought my copy new.

Review:

Rex is a massive humanoid dog Bioform, a cybernetically and genetically enhanced being created to be a military weapon. He's deadly enough on his own but is also packed with weaponry, and his voice is designed to instill fear. He's the leader of a group of Bioforms that include an enhanced bear named Honey, an enhanced reptile named Dragon, and a hivemind composed of enhanced bees called Bees. All he wants is to be a Good Dog, but what does that mean? 

His whole life, being a Good Dog has meant doing what Master tells him to do. Master tells him who the enemy is, and then Rex and his team kills the enemy. Things become more complicated, however, when Rex and his team's connection to Master gets broken off and Rex is left to decide on his own who is and isn't the enemy and what actions he needs to take to be a Good Dog.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

REVIEW: Service Model (book) by Adrian Tschaikovsky

Service Model is science fiction. I bought my copy new.

Review:

Charles (soon to be renamed Uncharles) is a robot valet in a decaying manor, in a decaying world. For reasons unknown, he slits his master's throat one day while shaving him and is forced to go out into the world to find Diagnostics, get fixed, and hopefully find new employment. Along the way, he meets another defective "robot," The Wonk, who tells him he's been infected with the Protagonist Virus, something that supposedly lets robots behave outside of the ways they were programmed.