A multicultural world of humanized monsters, trouble on the highway to hell, an epidemic of spontaneous combustion and a journey toward the self. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/books/review/review-the-edge-of-worlds-by-martha-wells-and-more.html?emc=%5B%27edit_tnt_20160419%27%5D&nlid=%5B%279935747%27%5D&tntemail0=%5B%27y%27%5D