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Bear Head
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Nathan Osgood, William Hope
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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Summary
In a sequel to the much-praised Dogs of War, Honey the genetically engineered bear takes a ride in Jimmy the Martian's head and starts a revolution on the Red Planet.
Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity: a civilisation where humans can live in peace, lord and master of all they survey.
But this isn't Space City from those old science-fiction books. It's more like Hell City, built into and from a huge crater. There's a big silk canopy over it, feeding out atmosphere as we generate it, little by little, because we can't breathe the air here.
I guess it's a perfect place to live, if you want to live on Mars. At some point I must have wanted to live on Mars, because here I am. The money was supposed to be good, and how else was a working Joe like me going to get off-planet exactly? But I remember the videos they showed us - guys, not even in suits, watching robots and bees and Bioforms doing all the work - and they didn't quite get it right.
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- Gosia Furmanik
- 11-10-21
Food for thought
The story somehow didn't flow that well for me. Maybe it's the switching narrators. But! The point the author made about us being governed by people who are good at getting power and getting to the top of social hierarchies, not good at governing was so mindlblowingly well made! The book is worth it for the social commentary alone.
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- Galin
- 03-11-21
Maybe a better read than listen
I loved the story and philosophy of distributed intelligence but the choice to have different narrators read out the different narratives was weird and distracting.
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- Thomas
- 15-06-21
Great story, slightly sketchy narration.
I really liked the story but the way the narrator changed depending on who the chapter was from the perspective of meant that the same characters had different people performing them each time which was a little jarring at first. This might just be me but I always think that if you're going to have multiple readers for an audiobook, you might as well just do it like an audio play with them playing the same people the whole way through.
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- A
- 15-08-21
A great book spoiled by inconsistent narration
As many other reviewers have noted, the choice of using different narrators backfired badly as they failed to agree on consistent narration styles. This is very jarring as it creates inconsistencies not only in how certain communications are handled (e.g., everything over the headwear), but also because different narrators have given different styles and personalities to the same characters. Laurence Bouvard faux street accent is particularly painful, and bordering on the offensive. Honey is voiced particularly inconsistently, which is disappointing as her voice is a very important plot point in the previous book. It is such a shame, because the book is otherwise excellent.
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- Jo
- 03-10-21
top marks
Great follow up, so engrosing. Really warmed to the performers after finding them a little jarring at first in the previous book.
The dialogue can be a little "stream of conscious" which you can sometimes get lost in, but after adjusting I found this added depth to the characters, really getting an onsite narrator's perspective.
Think I can guess who the "politician" character is based on... pretty great parody.
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- Russ Spooner
- 05-03-21
a worthy sequel
just an amazing story that expands and expounds on the universe.
loved every minute of it.
didn't want it to end.
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- D. B. Hubert
- 15-06-22
Not as good as dogs of war...
But still one of the best books I've read in recent years. An excellent pick for anyone into moral philosophy when it comes to AI and distributed intelligence.
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- Dwharfe
- 12-11-22
Should be more appreciated. Great story.
Somehow, whilst being a cool image, the cover put me off reading this series for a while as it didn't look like my type of story. Talk about not judging a book by it's cover... This series is amazing so far! So glad I risked a credit. Wonderfully character driven sci-fi.
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- Miss Andrea Mary Scott
- 27-06-23
In your head
Wasn't quite sure how a sequel to the stunning Dogs Of War story could be done. Yet, the author manages to pull off a logical, and simultaneously surprising, continuation of the bioForm evolution and their place amongst humans.
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- paul sparks
- 08-01-21
A fine sequel
It is not in my opinion as good as Dog Soldiers which still remains as one of the best audiobooks I have listened to but it is a worthy sequel (of sorts)
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