Finalist for the 2022 Locus Award for First Novel
Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies through
the years of a long, dangerous career with the infamous Dirty Dozen, the
most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy, at least before their
untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her diverse 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 have their own agenda and will do
whatever it takes to keep humanity from ever 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
their own traumas and a universe of sapient ageships who want them dead,
in order to settle their affairs once and for all.
Welcome to The All-Consuming World, the debut novel of acclaimed
writer Cassandra Khaw. 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.
