![]() ![]() There are fights galore and many messy deaths, including a suicide in the first chapter: The combination manifests throughout the book, like with the corporealization of an artificial intelligence that slowly dissects a body while discussing its provision of information. The All-Consuming World is biopunk at its most visceral and languorous. Solo, each member scattered throughout the galaxy to hide not only from the authorities but also from the murderous Maya and the manipulative Rita. The team broke up when a big job went terribly wrong. Forty years have passed since the Dirty Dozen worked together. The other members of Rita’s team, her Dirty Dozen mercenaries, are clones, too, but without the forced devotion. Neurological additives mean Maya is devoted to Rita, whose touch leaves Maya “unmoored” but still able to memorize “the vexation of fugitive hairs radiating from Rita’s skull, haloed and holy as decay in the glare of the lamp overhead.” In the process, Rita has enhanced more than just Maya’s desire to cut conversations short with gunfire. Clones emerge fully grown as “osseocartilaginous structure blooms into shrapnel, calcium spalling knifing into new tissue.” Rita did it - with a mix of chemicals each time she regrew Maya. ![]() Being a clone isn’t what made Maya this way. She loves to swear and prefers a firefight to a negotiation. Maya never met a situation she trusted or a person she wouldn’t just as soon kill. ![]()
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