6/2/2023 0 Comments The all consuming world![]() ![]() When Maya and Rita, who have a deeply codependent relationship and never separated, learn that one of them isn’t dead and that her consciousness is still alive, they decided to gather the remaining members of the Dirty Dozen, rescue their friend, and get to Dimmuborgir, a mythic planet not unlike Earth. The resentment between the surviving members has brewed for 40 years. Unfortunately, their last mission decimated the group and led to them splitting up. Maya used to be part of the infamous Dirty Dozen, a crew of criminals with a penchant for violence and a short temper that became legendary. Maya has died thousands of times, and each time she comes back in a new cyborg body, but while she can leave the destroyed body behind, she can’t do the same with her trauma. An explosive, lyrical, foul-mouthed science fiction novel in which technological advances fail to silence the most basic human emotions, The All-Consuming World is an interstellar trip full of violence, anger, broken friendships, and secret agendas that proves Khaw is exactly what readers of their shorter work have known for a long time: Khaw is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary genre fiction. ![]() Once in a while a debut novel comes along that deserves to be on every radar, and Cassandra Khaw’s The All-Consuming World is that kind of book. ![]()
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