Also, having grown up in the shadow of her hateful, surgically refined mother - a minor K-pop star turned successful hooker - she's got no interest in the trade. Hwa is one of the few unenhanced people on New Arcadia, a township made of oil platforms off the Newfoundland coast, but don't let that fool you: she's still one of the deadliest fighters on the rig, and that's why she works so steadily as private security for the licensed, unionized prostitutes of New Arcadia.Įven if she hadn't been a fighter, Hwa would never have been a prostitute: the disfiguring stain that starts on her face and runs all the way down her side precludes that kind of work.
A decade ago, I published the first Madeline Ashby story to see print, "In Which Joe and Laurie Save Rock n' Roll," in Tesseracts 11 four years ago, I reviewed her outstanding debut novel, vN, and then revelled in its sequel a year later: but now, a decade later, Ashby is an overnight success, with a breakout novel about love, labor, shame, sex and Singularity cultists: Company Town.
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