Sublime

of Iain M. Banks.

not. Added to that, my own fragmentary impressions gleaned from my time in the Hades matrix,

Kassad screams and pulls away. Strips of his flesh rip away as he lunges up and sideways. Metal teeth click shut in a steel vagina, missing his glans by a moist millimeter. Kassad slumps on his side, rolls away, hips moving, unable to stop his ejaculation. Semen explodes in streams, falls on the curled fist of a corpse. Kassad moans, rolls again, c

The base unit of life is all life.