![]() ![]() And that means committing wartime atrocities. He's the leader, and the chip in his brain tells him Good Dog or Bad Dog. Rex is a cross between a dog and much else, but I pretty much pictured him as a dog in a mech with guns (this is, as it turns out, inaccurate). Humans tried robots, and the robots didn't work out so their next war machines were hybrids, flesh and blood with implants and genetic engineering. The characters are convincingly other-than-human but clearly conscious and deserving. ![]() The style of the prose is neither overwrought nor sparse but where it really shines is the dialogue. ![]() ![]() Then this book was recommended to me and damn does it make some deep cuts. Rampant misogyny in the year 3142, anyone?) and aliens being reskinned humans, about how I saw scifi more as a reflection of the time period when it was written than a look through a scope into a potential future. Not two days ago I was complaining about scifi never being weird enough, about humans just being human no matter what their setting (particularly in older scifi - where the dated human views are particularly noticeable. While the conceit of cyborgs, robots, consciousness debates and the rights of non-humans has all been done to death before, Dogs of War does it so well that I don't even care. No spoilers (barring the first like two pages and the blurb of the book). ![]()
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