![]() ![]() ![]() As Maya and her comrades spiral closer to uncovering the AIs' vast conspiracy, this band of violent women-half-clone and half-machine-must battle both sapient ageships and their own traumas, in order to settle their affairs once and for all. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy will do whatever it takes to keep humanity from regaining control. With this explosive and introspective exploration of humans and machines, life and death, Khaw takes their rightful place next to such science fiction luminaries as Ann Leckie, Ursula Le Guin, and Kameron Hurley. but they're not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. Welcome to The All-Consuming World, the debut novel of acclaimed writer Cassandra Khaw. Decades later, she and her team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade. Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during her dangerous career with the Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy before their untimely and gruesome demise. Maya is a rabid dog of a mercenary clone who is ready to fist fight with god. ![]() ![]() and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again. The All-Consuming World is a little bit heist novel, a little bit noir narration, a hint of Lovecraftian, and a whole lot of gritty sci fi. But the universe's highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda. In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw's first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. ![]()
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