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With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the alert goes out that a lucrative piece of tech lies hidden on a nearby planet, she calls on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat other hunters to it.
What you found wasn’t your ticket out―it was my corpse wearing an AI mask. When you touched the mask, you heard my voice. A consciousness spinning through metal and circuits, a bodiless mind, spun to life in the HAWK’s temporary storage. I crystallized and realized: I was alive.
Masks aren't supposed to retain memory, much less identity, but the woman inside the MARK I HAWK is real, and she sees Wylla in a way no one ever has. Sees her, and doesn’t find her wanting or unwhole.
Armed with military-grade tech and a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the hunters, Wylla and HAWK set off to get answers from the man who discarded HAWK once before: her ex-husband.
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Seth Haddon (he/him) is the queer Australian author of Volatile Memory and The World of Reforged series. Armed with a degree in Ancient History, his previous life included wrangling cats and crafting worlds as a narrative designer and producer for video games. He lives in Sydney with a toothless rescue cat affectionately known as Gumilla. Some of his adventures include exploring Pompeii with a famous archaeologist and being chased through a train station by a nun.
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