Bear Head (Dogs of War Book 2)

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I have read and watched some pure real-world political thrillers, and I do prefer them with genre elements added in (Tim Powers’ Declare is one of my absolute favourites, and my own Doors Of Eden has a lot of that kind of thing too). I think that a lot of the political thriller elements are a really good fit for SF as a general pattern, and then you get to have all sorts of fun thinking through how your magic or tech or alien race’s worldview would change everything. You’re very prolific as a writer, what’s your process? Do you work on multiple books simultaneously or do you work on one at a time? Dolberg, Frands (1 August 1992). "Progress in the utilization of urea-ammonia treated crop residues: biological and socio-economic aspects of animal production and application of the technology on small farms". University of Arhus. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07 . Retrieved 10 August 2010. Postma, Laura. "The word for "bear" ". University of Pittsburgh Slovak Studies Program. Archived from the original on 2017-11-22 . Retrieved 21 March 2018.

The book at times feels like a political thriller, do you think science fiction is a good way to explore that genre?

There is evidence of prehistoric bear worship, though this is disputed by archaeologists. [138] It is possible that bear worship existed in early Chinese and Ainu cultures. [139] The prehistoric Finns, [140] Siberian peoples [141] and more recently Koreans considered the bear as the spirit of their forefathers. [142] Artio ( Dea Artio in the Gallo-Roman religion) was a Celtic bear goddess. Evidence of her worship has notably been found at Bern, itself named for the bear. Her name is derived from the Celtic word for "bear", artos. [143] In ancient Greece, the archaic cult of Artemis in bear form survived into Classical times at Brauron, where young Athenian girls passed an initiation rite as arktoi "she bears". [144] Bellemain, E.; Zedrosser, A.; Manel, S.; Waits, L. P.; Taberlet, P.; Swenson, J. E. (2005). "The dilemma of female mate selection in the brown bear, a species with sexually selected infanticide". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 273 (1584): 283–291. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3331. PMC 1560043. PMID 16543170. Bonser, Wilfrid (1928). "The mythology of the Kalevala, with notes on bear-worship among the Finns". Folklore. 39 (4): 344–358. doi: 10.1080/0015587x.1928.9716794. JSTOR 1255969.

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Bear taxon names such as Arctoidea and Helarctos come from the ancient Greek ἄρκτος ( arktos), meaning bear, [7] as do the names " arctic" and " antarctic", via the name of the constellation Ursa Major, the "Great Bear", prominent in the northern sky. [8] Swenson, J. E.; Dahle, B.; Sandegren, F. (2001). "Intraspecific predation in Scandinavian brown bears older than cubs-of-the-year". Ursus. 12: 81–91. JSTOR 3873233. Archived from the original on 2017-11-16 . Retrieved 2017-01-14. Joshi, Anup; Garshelis, David L.; Smith, James L. D. (1997). "Seasonal and Habitat-Related Diets of Sloth Bears in Nepal". Journal of Mammalogy. 1978 (2): 584–597. doi: 10.2307/1382910. JSTOR 1382910. Fortson, Benjamin W. (2011). Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (2nded.). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons. p.31. ISBN 978-1-4443-5968-8. OCLC 778339290. Soibelzon, L. H.; Tonni, E.P.; Bond, M. (2005). "The fossil record of South American short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae)" (PDF). Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 20 (1–2): 105–113. Bibcode: 2005JSAES..20..105S. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2005.07.005. hdl: 10915/5366.

Jimmy is not your typical protagonist, he’s hardly a hero, is it easier or harder to write such a flawed character?

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