2021/028: Bear Head -- Adrian Tchaikovsky

2021/028: Bear Head -- Adrian Tchaikovsky

Sometimes, hidden deep within the trap of ‘They’re not like us’ was the terror of ‘What if they’re just like us, but stronger?’ Sometimes the fear came because you were scared of looking into the eye of the monster and seeing your own reflection. [loc. 365]

Thirty years after the events of Dogs of War, Mars is in the process of being colonised, and the people doing the work, the builders and maintenance crews and so on, are modified humans. (Of course these modifications will be reversed, once the work is done. Of course they will.) ( minor spoilers )