Book Review
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
This extremely compelling science fiction novel is set in a far future in which the Radch empire has spread widely throughout space, encompassing most of the human-populated worlds. Twenty years after the last of the Radch's conquests/annexations, a former soldier known as Breq is pursuing the last stages of her revenge -based quest. Breq used to be Justice of Toren, a vast AI that controlled and linked a starship and thousands of its soldiers. I won't say much about the plot or even the details of the world, since that would give too much away. I will say that the climactic scene involves a bit that will amuse the hell out of early-music nerds.
I loved this book. I could barely put it down, but I couldn't read it too fast because there was so much to think about an puzzle out. Leckie does a masterful job of combining plot, world-building, and character exposition. Plus, she's a genius at revealing how the setting works and what is really going on without either spoon-feeding or frustrating the reader. Along the way, she embeds a through-provoking examination of what it is to be human, what a sense of belonging means, and tghe ethical dilemmas of conquest and empire.
by Ann Leckie
This extremely compelling science fiction novel is set in a far future in which the Radch empire has spread widely throughout space, encompassing most of the human-populated worlds. Twenty years after the last of the Radch's conquests/annexations, a former soldier known as Breq is pursuing the last stages of her revenge -based quest. Breq used to be Justice of Toren, a vast AI that controlled and linked a starship and thousands of its soldiers. I won't say much about the plot or even the details of the world, since that would give too much away. I will say that the climactic scene involves a bit that will amuse the hell out of early-music nerds.
I loved this book. I could barely put it down, but I couldn't read it too fast because there was so much to think about an puzzle out. Leckie does a masterful job of combining plot, world-building, and character exposition. Plus, she's a genius at revealing how the setting works and what is really going on without either spoon-feeding or frustrating the reader. Along the way, she embeds a through-provoking examination of what it is to be human, what a sense of belonging means, and tghe ethical dilemmas of conquest and empire.