Dogs of war software engineering

Do they have rights or they just weapons? Rex is a dog, and he wants to be a good dog. His master wants Rex to kill the enemies, but who is the real enemy? What makes someone an enemy? Lots of ethics, lots of mortality. View all 8 comments. Oct 10, Bradley rated it really liked it Shelves: sci-fi , shelf , transhumanism.

What at first appeared to be a straight tale of totally augmented dogs and other animals refitted with all the glorious technology of war, designed to be true monsters completely obedient to their masters, eventually became a tale of ethics and morality couched in legal-drama, societal commentary, and complicated decisions. I'm quite impressed.

This isn't just a war-dog story taken literally. It's a full-blown discussion on what makes humanity, transhumanism rights, and the pitfalls of certain ki What at first appeared to be a straight tale of totally augmented dogs and other animals refitted with all the glorious technology of war, designed to be true monsters completely obedient to their masters, eventually became a tale of ethics and morality couched in legal-drama, societal commentary, and complicated decisions.

It's a full-blown discussion on what makes humanity, transhumanism rights, and the pitfalls of certain kinds of tech, focusing more or less on those that remove free-will, but it's not always about the tech. What are any of us? We hide behind entities and justifications just as damning as the operant conditioning so tightly discussed in this novel.

Good boy, Rex, you're a good dog. It's similar to Tchaikovsky's other novels in that he's got a big thing going on about personified animals or a wide variation on the theme, but like his other SF novel, Children of Time, I really like his SF much better than his fantasy.

It's not as epic as CoT, either, but it's certainly a very interesting ride. Don't go into it expecting the same thing it starts out with. The novel changes with the MC Damn, I love Honey. It's worth reading just for her. View all 9 comments. Sep 27, Emma rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley.

But when he is cut from that hierarchy, he must make his own decisions with the help of his friends in the Multi-form Assault Pack: Bees, Dragon, and Honey. Reminiscent of Flowers for Algernon , Rex's story is one of self-discovery, changing perceptions, and the building of personal morality. His evolving situation, from military asset to something more, means he must ask himself questions he was never progra Bioform Rex is trying to be a Good Boy, the kind of Good Dog his Master wants him to be.

His evolving situation, from military asset to something more, means he must ask himself questions he was never programmed to consider: what is the right thing to do? And what happens when his Master orders him to go against this burgeoning understanding? Told through multiple perspectives, including some of the other bioforms, the books presents a complex picture of humanity, especially when being human does not necessarily mean you are humane.

It gives the larger issues of the book a real vibrancy and immediacy. And there's lots in there: the right to life, the viability of artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation, the rights of animals, ethical warfare The sci-fi setting only enhances the ability of the author to ask these big questions, they are our current concerns writ large. On top of all that, it's full of action and has a serious emotional punch.

My only criticism is that the end section felt overly long, even if the climax was both moving and apropos. Overall, a fun and thought-provoking read. ARC via Netgalley Jan 10, Justine rated it really liked it Shelves: read. It is just as heartwrenching as you might expect. I was made to be a weapon but I have lived a life. I was born an animal, they made me into a soldier and treated me as a thing. Servant and slave, leader and follower, I tell myself I have been a Good Dog. Nobody else can decide that for me.

View all 5 comments. Adrian Tchaikovsky is becoming one of my favourite authors! After reading Children of Time , I knew I needed to read something else from the same author. Rex just wants to be a Good Dog. Rex has a Master. Rex kills enemies because his Master says so.

The development of Rex throughout the story is phenomenal. I don't want to spoil anything, but the way the author chose to show us that is fantastic! Less thought-provoking than Children of Time but sti 4. Less thought-provoking than Children of Time but still an excellent book with some really interesting ideas and discussions. View all 3 comments. Dogs of War was not the book I was expecting to read - in a good way.

In Dogs of War, Tchaikovsky turns his talents towards sci-fi with genetically engineered bioforms - animals enhanced by weaponised technology and given the smarts to communicate with humans on near like-for-like levels. The protagonist is Rex, a genetically enhanced dog w Dogs of War was not the book I was expecting to read - in a good way. The protagonist is Rex, a genetically enhanced dog who carries out deadly missions as instructed by his master.

Along with his team of bioforms which includes bees, a bear, and a reptile named Dragon, Rex is subjected to brutal combat on near-suicide missions, fighting in a war he knows nothing about. Intelligent is his own right, it takes Honey, the enhanced bear, to release Rex and co from the confines of their masters' pull strings for him to see a world beyond violence, a world where bioforms can be more than weapons.

I loved the way these characters evolved from combat team to individuals with their own goals, each with a unique voice to go along with their unique physical attributes and all with a surprising amount of character depth. Dogs of War isn't all about combat; it's a novel which takes war and broadens the concept to include peacetime ramifications of this new frontier technology through sociopolitical commentary which in turn gives the characters and theme a feel delivered through a multi POV narrative.

In short, this book is great, read it. View 1 comment. Jan 25, Lindsay rated it it was amazing. I am a Good Dog. He's also a nearly eight-feet tall bio-engineered cybernetically-enhanced dog soldier with access to heavy weaponry and networked to a whole squad of other artificial bioweapons. Being introduced to each of them is a really well-done in text - I won't spoil it here. Master says we must kill all of them.

But while Rex is smart, he's not the smartest person on his team, nor is he without friends even if he doesn't know they exist or why they care. An enduring theme in science fiction is the way humans are going to interact with non-human intelligences. In the last few years the focus of a lot of serious works in the field have shifted from space aliens as the likely intelligences that we will interact with to the looming and ever more likely Artificial Intelligence.

I made this point in other recent reviews of Autonomous and Sea of Rust , and there are certainly lots of great books about AI in science fiction at the moment. In this, Adrian Tchaikovsky postulates uplifted animals as another likely contact between humans and non-humans, and he does so with brilliant self-consistency in his extremely believable world. Rex is far more human than animal, but he's also recognizably non-human with a lot of basic behavior coming from his canine ancestry.

He's also a very relatable character who over the whole book has to contend with his programming and whether what he does is moral or not. I loved Rex. I loved his squad and the people who befriend him. A really wonderful book from an author who has become a must-read for me.

Oct 31, Tessy Ijachi rated it liked it Shelves: arc. They're used as weapons in the war cause they can carry out orders given to them by their master. Something about this book is that you will find the animals more intriguing than the humans.

The author did a great job with the animals, they had emotions, thoughts and different personalities. They even went through an intense character development, especially Rex. The reason am not giving this book five stars is because it was so boring at times. The writing was a little bit difficult to get into at first but I got used to it whenever it was Rex speaking but anytime it was humans, I found their whole dialogue boring. I don't even think they should have their own point of view, it wasn't too necessary.

I'd recommend this book to Sci-fi fans looking for something different and animal lovers. Aug 18, K. Charles added it Shelves: sf. It's really well worked out, as we see Rex seven foot tall slavering dog-monster who just wants to hear he's a Good Boy , Honey giant genius bear and Bees bees edge their way towards independent thought, freedom and a new morality.

Compellingly intelligent SF with a lot of heart as well as much violence. Jan 15, Lata rated it really liked it Shelves: scifi-fantasy , xread. Tchaikovsky actually makes a punny reference, partway through this book, to the classic, and actually improves on the classic and its ideas. He posits a future for war that includes bioengineered human-animal beings, but with advanced tech in their heads and reinforced bodies, all to augment their particular existing mammalian traits, and give them huge advantages in battle a 4.

He posits a future for war that includes bioengineered human-animal beings, but with advanced tech in their heads and reinforced bodies, all to augment their particular existing mammalian traits, and give them huge advantages in battle as terrifyingly effective weapons. None of which the original scientists and biomechanical engineers ever intended. But with the growing neural complexity and increasing experiences, the multi-bioforms begin, unbeknownst to their master Murray, exceeding his commands.

Murray has been waging his own unsanctioned battles in Mexico, while under contract to deploy the multi-bioform squad to troubled spots. Tchaikovsky poses many questions, many of them ethical, including -running wars through contracted, unmonitored corporations; who deals with the inevitable abuses and atrocities?

Jul 14, Graeme Rodaughan rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Lovers of excellent high-concept science fiction. Shelves: science-fiction , gets-under-your-skin , the-best , sheer-genius , action. All the best things that I read a book for.

Set in a near future, genetically engineered, cybernetically enhanced, human-animal hybrids are the disposable weapons for corporate sponsored black-ops wars in desperate regions of the world. Rex, is a human-canine leader of a 'multi-form,' pack executing the orders of his human master - until he's let off the leash and along with his squad mates begins thinking for themselves.

Against a backdrop of conflict between two possible futures: Rex finds his truest self. Will Humanity become an enlightened civilization of distributed, interconnected intelligences where social power is peripheralized or will we become a Borg-like master-slave hierarchy where social power is deeply centralized to a single point based on implanted devices and electrochemical conditioning.

You'll have to read this book to find out. The dogs give us visuals of the area, all while keeping our defenders closer to the aircraft.

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