The All Consuming World

This is Khaw at their most raw and unrestrained. Prepare for a wild ride. --Kameron Hurley, Hugo Award-winning author of The Stars are Legion and The Light Brigade Cassandra Khaw wields words like a butcher's knife--with expert grace and blunt violence. The All-Consuming World is a lean story of traumatized near-immortal ex-mercenaries, ancient AI warships, and mind-bending biotech. It's relentless, profane, and weird--and I mean that in a good way. --Fonda Lee, award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga Profane and gorgeous, The All-Consuming World is the angry queer space opera you've been waiting for. Khaw's style is as ferocious as their characters, and I love the rusty intimacy of the world they've built around the interconnected fates of flesh and machines. --Annalee Newitz, Hugo and Lambda Award-winning author of Autonomous, Future of Another Timeline, and Four Lost Cities Reminds me of the first time I read Snow Crash -- The All-Consuming World has that frenetic, urgent energy that doesn't so much compel you to read further as it grabs you by the chin and drags you across the pages. Khaw has written a surly, sneering, zero-g, sharp-toothed poem of vulgarity and violence, and I am here for every electric word of it. --Chuck Wendig, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Wanderers What a @#*% ride! Cassandra Khaw has written an utterly bold and bombastic sci-fi novel--complete with sentient warships, conniving AI, and quite possibly the most dangerous and violent foul-mouthed lady cyborg mercenaries in the known universe! And I am absolutely here for all of it! Khaw has built a world as scarily beautiful and complex as their expansive imagination. Be warned though: once this book gets a hold of you, it won't let go until the mind-bending, explosive end! --P. Djeli Clark, award-winning author of Ring Shout and A Master of Djinn Cassandra Khaw's explosive, evocative prose is a treat to read. Khaw's ability to transform the mundane into the deeply phantasmagorical is nothing short of magical. Prepare to take a long leap into the gory, the weird, and the fantastic in the hands of a fresh new voice in fiction. -- Kameron Hurley on Hammers on Bone A glorious fusion of the classic noir detective thriller with Lovecraftian horror, like the squamous tentacular lovechild of Raymond Chandler and H. P. Lovecraft hatching from a five-dimensional egg to slouch down these dark streets in search of human minds to flay. Seriously? Possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016, a suitable light in these dark times. -- Charles Stross on Hammers on Bone Khaw brilliantly combines the self-aware, on-point tone of her gumshoe narrator with the invasive rhythm of the language of pulsing terrors. The drearily everyday is infused with Lovecraftian dread in a marvelously horrifying, tightly built novella that spins a satisfying tale while doing honor to both of its core sources. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hammers on Bone