We humans manipulate nature and technology to serve our own purpose, but can we maintain control of our creations? What happens if engineered bioforms are cut loose from their masters, can they think for themselves? And which choices will they make when they are free? Do they have rights? Or can we just kill them off, when they don’t serve our purpose anymore? Some relevant themes are being discussed in Dogs of War. The dialogue occasionally evoked a few giggles, but mostly for the wrong reasons. And I am a good dog’ is repeated endlessly throughout the book and each time I debated with myself whether to give up. I may suffer from a lack of imagination, but the naive dialogue made it difficult for me to take the story and in particular the protagonist Rex seriously.

Consequently the dialogue and language is rather naive and simplistic representing the mind of an enhanced dog. To be fair a lot of Sci-Fi and Fantasy probably does sound daft when you try to explain it to other people, but this book impressively managed to fulfil whatever daftness potential might be indicated from the blurb.Ī large part of the events are experienced from Rex’s perspective. The team is sent out to war zones across the world.ĭoes this sound a bit daft to you? I am afraid it was.

Rex leads a team of bioforms which include a huge bear named Honey, a poisonous bees entity called Bees(!) and a lazy lizard called Dragon. And programmed to obey his masters orders with unfailing reliability. Rex is a killer machine – a bioform based on a dog engineered to possess excessive strength, brutality and ability to use weapons.

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