The only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie’s New York Times bestselling trilogy. On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren – a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire … service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.
Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.
In the Ancillary world: 1. Ancillary Justice2. Ancillary Sword3. Ancillary Mercy
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Finished Ancillary Justice last night! I was very satisfied by the whole book, but not blown away by the ending. I did love the unique non-human protagonist, and the questions of identity, humanity, and morality that Ann Leckie was able to explore from that perspective. I read this in paperback, but I actually wish I’d used my ereader—rather than …
This took me a while to get into. (I haven’t read hard scifi in a while, and I think it’s just a rhythm I needed to adjust to.) But once I did, I was really into this book! It’s a political potboiler starring the only surviving component of a lost ship’s AI. The author brings up a lot of interesting questions about how people face moral conundrums …
@HMish have you started Ancillary Justice yet? I really like it so far!
The best protagonist ever devised by a human mind. Sophisticated plot, great use of the language, but most of all Leckie is a brilliant storyteller with a really great imagination. And it gets even better: she wrote two additional books featuring the same characters…it’s a TRiLOGY of delights!
Elaborate and creative world-building. Written from the POV of a sentient ship. I couldn’t get enough! A page-turner!
I would recommend Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy and this is the second book — the others are Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy. She does some very interesting things with gender.
A new science fiction favorite author.
combines the best of other galactic-empire books: the AIs of Endymion (Simmons), the culture of Praxis (Walter Jon Williams), and the emperor from Sten (Bunch and Cole). The characters are wonderful and deep. My only complaint was the need for a little more accuracy in science. For example, the station AI couldn’t detect people with builtin …
Imagine that you once were a ship and half the entities on it.
This is a far future story with several original ideas, interesting characters and plenty of dramatic tension. I found the decision to mess with gender pronouns confusing, but not a serious problem. The idea of a “large” intelligence being forced to live in a single human-ish body echoes stories by Vinge but Leckie’s take on the subject felt quite …
Prepare to have your mind blown with this SciFi. I’m pretty sure you’ve not read anything like this. But be warned, the pace is slow. Glacial some might say, and I know that has put a lot of readers off. I also agree with a review I read that said you really need to read it regularly and not have too big an interval between sessions to keep up …
This book follows Breq, once an artificial intelligence that spanned an entire starship, now hidden in a human body and on a quest against the Radch empire than spans the galaxy. Moving backward and forward in time, the stories intertwine to reveal Breq’s mission and her motives. You really are dropped right in the middle of a brand new and …
This book is fiercely original. New worlds, new characters, even new vocabulary. The plotline cannot be predicted but is interesting and suspenseful until the end.And the protagonist is fascinating.
Memorable characters.