Welcome to Hell City, Mars
Jimmy Martin has a sore head.
Hes used to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first time it has started talking to him.
The data claims to be a distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist.
It also claims to be a bear.
A bear named Honey.
Jimmy has nothing against bioformshes one himself, albeit one engineered out of human stockand works with them everyday in Hell City, building the future, staking mankinds claim to a new world: Mars.
The problem is that humanity isnt the only entity with designs on the Red Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal.
And Honey is here to make contact with it, whether Jimmy likes it or not.
