Bee speaker

Adrian Tchaikovsky, 1972-

Book - 2025

"The end of the world has been and gone. There 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. But 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. Fast forward to today. A signal -- 'For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help.' -- reaches Mars. How could they refuse? A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world o...f their ancestors. And now here they are -- three hundred million kilometres from home. And it has all already gone horribly wrong."--Jacket flap. more