{"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, aided 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 million kilometres from home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd it has all already gone horribly wrong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as \u003ci\u003eElder Race\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDoors of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpiderlight \u003c\/i\u003eand many others. \u003ci\u003eChildren of Time \u003c\/i\u003eand its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Head of Zeus -- An Adastra Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51321397674258,"sku":"9781035901456","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4262137f-9441-41f2-8a9d-edec55ca8227.jpg?v=1748586930","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bee-speaker-9781035901456","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}