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Description
A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark Award-winning author of CHILDREN OF TIME.
My name is Rex. I am a good dog.
Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies.
But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist?
And what happens when Rex slips his leash?
'Detailed and clever worldbuilding... Tchaikovsky pulls off an impressive feat in making Rex's character evolution genuinely moving. Readers will be wowed' Publishers Weekly
Product details
| Published | 02 Jun 2026 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 9781035922475 |
| Imprint | Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Rex, a 2-metre-tall bioengineered dog, is one of the most achingly human characters I have ever encountered in an SF novel. A gripping dive into bioethics and artificial intelligence
New Scientist
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This is superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio
Financial Times
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A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human
Patrick Ness
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Detailed and clever worldbuilding... Tchaikovsky pulls off an impressive feat in making Rex's character evolution genuinely moving. Readers will be wowed
Publishers Weekly
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A timely warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence and super weapons in the hands of unscrupulous powers
Guardian
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The novel [is] thoughtful and emotionally affecting, yet also exciting and unpredictable
SFX 5* review

























