Very worth your time." -Seanan McGuire, award-winning author of Every Heart a Doorway and Middlegame Brilliantly written and paced, I don't think there's another author working right now who could have pulled this off. This book is a knife to the ribs: sharp, brutal, and absolutely designed to do exactly what it's doing. " The All-Consuming World carries Khaw into a new universe, one without limits or horizons-and they're quick to smash everything in sight, doing as much damage as they can to the reader's preconceptions about what cyberpunk, post-humanism, galactic expansion, and relationships should look like. 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.
but they're not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. 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. and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again. But the universe's highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda. Description 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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