Painless

Rich Larson Tor.com 04/10/19 2019

ShortStory 5,412 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

With tremendous powers of regeneration, Mars is an incomparable killing machine, but he’s on the run, and there’s one special prisoner he’s determined to rescue.

Biopunk Found Family West Africa

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Visceral Bodily Autonomy Fast Paced Trauma Near Future Literary SF Melancholic Contemplative Survival Close Third Person Bittersweet Science Fiction Identity Character Driven

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deathgoreviolence

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