Bee Speaker

About the book

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 of their ancestors. And now here they are – three hundred million kilometres from home. And it has all already gone horribly wrong.

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.0 across 38 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 21% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.