Rex and his team are designed to do the dirty work people are not allowed to do. With the massive bio-engineered dog, armed with shoulder mounted machine guns, hands with razor sharp claws and armour covering his already dense skin, the telling of the tale is uncomfortable. The main tale is told from Rex’s perspective. But when things go wrong and the things Rex, Honey, Dragon and Bees, along with the other bioform packs, have been doing come to light in the wider world, their leash is slipped and Rex has to decide for himself what being good means.Īdrian Tchaikovsky’s novel is deeply nuanced. But what if Master is bad? Rex’s inbuilt hierarchy tells him he must do what Master says. Whether they are big human enemies or little human enemies, if Master has tagged them as bad, Rex and his team will deal with them, to be good. With his team, Honey, Dragon and Bees, they head out into the war torn Campeche province in Mexico and hunt down the bad guys. Rex, because he is a good dog, does the tasks he is given. When he is, his feedback chip makes sure he feels good. He lives for the moments when his master tells him he is a good dog.
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It serves as the setting for two of his novel series - the Paarfi of Woundwood books (including the now-complete Khaavren Romances series) and the Vlad Taltos books (ongoing) - as well as the standalone novel Brokedown Palace.ĭragaera is a fantasy world dominated by two major sentient races. The world of Dragaera is the brainchild of Steven Brust. Alas, Martha Washington ordered their personal correspondence destroyed, closing off the main avenue to a more intimate look at Washington the man. What Washington does pass down to us is voluminous, mostly official correspondence, not especially revealing daily diaries and documents from his life as a self-made member of the Virginia gentry, leader in the fight for American independence and first president of the United States. "It's harder to write about because Adams and Jefferson give you the words themselves, whereas Washington's basic convictions were shaped by experience and action. "There's a fundamentally different sensibility at work here," Ellis says, comparing Washington to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson during a call to his home in Amherst, Massachusetts. And he discovered sides of Washington-the man, not the monument we've made of him-that surprised him. Like many of us, historian Joseph Ellis long considered George Washington a distant, almost unapproachable icon, "aloof and silent, like the man in the moon." Then Ellis began research for a chapter about Washington's farewell address in Founding Brothers, his brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller about America's revolutionary generation. |