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. But the universe's
highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it
takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again.
In space, everything hungers.
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.
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 . . . but they're not the
only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet
Dimmuborgir.
The highly evolved AI of the galaxy will do whatever it takes to keep
humanity from regaining control. 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.
