![]() ![]() In volume three, Nyx returns from retirement to participate in a complex clearing of the slate. Military SF elements intensify in the second volume, with confrontations between Nyx and traitor Bel Dame assassins taking centre stage, and (as commonly the case) the fate of the planet at stake. The narrative – involving missions, counter-missions, betrayal, torture, Sex – seems mainly useful, in the first volume, to give Nyx, the noirish bisexual "kick-ass" Bel Dame protagonist, room to convey through her adventures an in media res portrait of the extremely complex world Hurley has built. ![]() ![]() One of the lands at war has become a matriarchy (see Gender Women in SF) after its males had been sent into conflict it is from here the Bel Dames, female government assassins, operate. (1980- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Holding Onto Ghosts" in Talebones for Summer 2003, and who has gained considerable attention for her Bel Dame Apocrypha sequence comprising God's War ( 2011), Infidel ( 2011) and Rapture ( 2012), set on a planet colonized (see Colonization of Other Worlds) by Muslims, a world whose complexly evolved insects, controlled by "magicians" through their command of pheromones, are used by Homo sapiens to motor and maintain their Technology, all while an internecine War of Religion over doctrinal differences continues to keep the surface of Umayma radioactive and deadly. ![]()
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