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This won the Best Novel Hugo and Nebula both last year, and it actually looked pretty entertaining, so I picked it up and quite enjoyed it, though I won’t say it blew me away. But then not all that many books do blow me away, and I’m not sure any of them ever won a Hugo or Nebula. Thinking back there were Clement’s Mission of Gravity, Sturgeon’s More Than Human, Galouye’s Dark Universe, Weber’s Off Armageddon Reef, Bujold’s The Vor Game and A Civil Campaign, the whole Drake-Flint Belisarius series—I’m sure there have been others, but those come first to my mind. This one jumped around more than I prefer—I don’t mind the occasional flashback, but one like this that keeps jumping back and forth in time takes more work keeping the sequence of events straight than I care for. Breq, the first-person narrator of the story, is an “ancillary”—a human whom the Radchaai, a race that has conquered most of human-occupied space in the distant future, have fitted with implants and coupled to the AI running a warship, so that what goes on in her head is shared with many other ancillaries who are generally the lead elements of any planetary invasion. Ancillaries are by and large free from human emotions, so as an invading force they’re not guilty of the kinds of raping and torture that too many humans charged with that kind of action are prone to, but on the other hand they have no mercy, either. Breq, however, is cut off when her ship is destroyed by sabotage in the course of a civil war between various avatars of the somewhat immortal Emperor. Definitely worth reading, and the sequel, Ancillary Sword, is out and I have it, though I probably won’t read it immediately. A third book in the series, Ancillary Mercy, is announced but not published yet. Leckie is a good writer, if not a great one to my taste.


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Ancillary Justice Imperial Radch Ann Leckie 9780316246620 Books Reviews

don't know why I sat on this one for so long. I loved it! It was admittedly difficult to follow along at first, but it got easier as the book went on. I had already read Leckie's Provenance which is actually not a bad introduction to the world at all, but I might have to re-read and see if there's anything I missed.

At first, this book is told in two plot threads that focus on the same character, a present timeline and a series of flashbacks. Although it's not always a format that works for me (I usually become more interested in one story over another) it worked here. In the present timeline the reader is trying to figure out what all Breq, the MC, is actually doing and why she's doing it, and that story is given to you in tidbits, via the past. So they worked in tandem very well.

I absolutely loved the world building, the different religions and gods, the quirks of Breq's character (she has a penchant for singing, humming, and learning new songs). There is an absolutely fascinating concept introduced here that I can honestly say I've only seen in about two other books, that is one mind (whether human or AI) sharing multiple bodies. I can't expand on it without spoilers, but Leckie utilized the concept in a wonderful way and didn't waste it.

One of my only complaints, is that I cannot actually tell you the physical sex of a single character in this book. Breq tends to use "she" for everyone, as she repeatedly states that she is very bad at guessing the gender of anyone, and the Radch do not actually use gendered pronouns. Sometimes gender is revealed in her conversations with other people in languages that are not Radch, but honestly in my head I was picturing planets of s. Looking back the only character that registered as male to me was incredibly minor and had no speaking lines.

Which brings me onto the characters themselves I adored them. Breq is a clear favorite, and even as an AI she had more life to her than most fictional characters. Through the entire beginning of the book, I hated Seivarden, but she experiences a lot of character growth over the course of the book and by the end she was one of my favorites. Even though the plot was complex and I still don't entirely understand everything that happened, the characters and their relationships with each other was enough for me to keep reading.

I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys character driven space operas.
I usually don’t review popular, award-winning books since it seems both pretentious and pointless. Plus hard to write. But since I recently loaded up on books that happened to be Hugo winners, I joined World Without End’s “12 Awards in 12 Months” Reading Challenge without realizing that the challenge was to not only read but review )

In addition to being extremely well written, there are so many dimensions to “Ancillary Justice” that it is easy to see why it won the Hugo award. On one level this is pure space opera- distant future, multi-world, heroic protagonist, conflict between good and evil, great emotion. On another, it also does what sci fi does at its best- pointing out the ambiguity in what is “good” or “evil” and the never ending conflict between the “haves” and the “have nots”. The later was a little too overt and on-the-nose for me which kept me from really loving the book.

Another dimension is the now famous use of pronouns. The dominant human culture’s language does not recognize gender and everyone is referred to as “she”. This may have given “Ancillary” a reputation as a “feminist” book but it most emphatically is not. Gender roles really aren’t the theme here (see above) it is much more subtle than that. As you’re reading you find yourself recognizing assumptions you’ve made about gender behaviors and subtext you add based on your own prejudices. This adds depth and makes the book more interesting but be warned- it also makes some things more difficult. I usually have at least a vague visualization of the characters but that’s hard to do when you have no idea of gender )

“Ancillary Justice” kept me engrossed and once I adjusted to the pronoun issue, I couldn’t put it down. Although it can be read as a standalone, I’ll definitely be reading the rest of the trilogy.
This won the Best Novel Hugo and Nebula both last year, and it actually looked pretty entertaining, so I picked it up and quite enjoyed it, though I won’t say it blew me away. But then not all that many books do blow me away, and I’m not sure any of them ever won a Hugo or Nebula. Thinking back there were Clement’s Mission of Gravity, Sturgeon’s More Than Human, Galouye’s Dark Universe, Weber’s Off Armageddon Reef, Bujold’s The Vor Game and A Civil Campaign, the whole Drake-Flint Belisarius series—I’m sure there have been others, but those come first to my mind. This one jumped around more than I prefer—I don’t mind the occasional flashback, but one like this that keeps jumping back and forth in time takes more work keeping the sequence of events straight than I care for. Breq, the first-person narrator of the story, is an “ancillary”—a human whom the Radchaai, a race that has conquered most of human-occupied space in the distant future, have fitted with implants and coupled to the AI running a warship, so that what goes on in her head is shared with many other ancillaries who are generally the lead elements of any planetary invasion. Ancillaries are by and large free from human emotions, so as an invading force they’re not guilty of the kinds of raping and torture that too many humans charged with that kind of action are prone to, but on the other hand they have no mercy, either. Breq, however, is cut off when her ship is destroyed by sabotage in the course of a civil war between various avatars of the somewhat immortal Emperor. Definitely worth reading, and the sequel, Ancillary Sword, is out and I have it, though I probably won’t read it immediately. A third book in the series, Ancillary Mercy, is announced but not published yet. Leckie is a good writer, if not a great one to my taste.