5/18/2023 0 Comments Ann leckieThe trilogy is sci-fi in the “hard,” “space-opera” sense: technology is front and center, and the parties are maneuvering militarily, politically, diplomatically, and via subterfuge for control of multiple planet systems. Where Ancillary Justice moved forward as a combined mystery-action adventure (Who is Breq? Where is Justice of Toren in the present?), Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy are linear, as Breq is granted authority over a planetary system and struggles to create a just, secure place there. The second two books depart from the first one. In fact, I’m giving you less information than the book jacket or the Amazon summary, so beware of those if you go shopping for this book. And that’s all the detail I want to give you, because a great deal of the fun of that first book is watching the plot and the setting unfold. Flashbacks show One Esk Nineteen, a human body permanently converted into an ancillary puppet body run by the warship AI Justice of Toren, witnesses an atrocity committed by the leader of the Radch empire. In Ancillary Justice, the first book of the series, the narrator Breq is on an icy planet hunting for something unknown. I can’t say it enough: this series is amazing. That she followed it with two more equally stunning and satisfying books makes me wonder who she sold her soul to, and whether or not they’d be interested in mine. That’s a heck of a showing for a debut book. Ancillary Justice, the first in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series, won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C.
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