{"product_id":"bee-speaker-9781035901456","title":"Bee Speaker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered \"Bioforms\" have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe end of the world has been and gone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, \u003cbr\u003eaided by Bees - an outlawed distributed intelligence - survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFast forward to today. A signal - 'For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help.' - reaches Mars. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow could they refuse? A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors. And now here they are - three hundred\u003cbr\u003emillion kilometres from home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd it has all already gone horribly wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Head of Zeus -- An Adastra Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781035901456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448","brand":"Adrian Tchaikovsky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276414443701,"sku":"9781035901456","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_478ae850-ba39-4c85-ad0b-11c90c4230b0.jpg?v=1744123149","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bee-speaker-9781035901456","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}