Welcome To Hell City, Mars Jimmy Martin Has A Sore Head. He's 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 Bioforms – He's One Himself, Albeit One Engineered Out Of Human Stock – And Works With Them Everyday In Hell City, Building The Future, Staking Mankind's Claim To A New World: Mars. The Problem Is That Humanity Isn't 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.