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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 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
- Sales Rank: #6788 in Books
- Published on: 2013-10-01
- Released on: 2013-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.25" w x 5.50" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
Review
"If you don't know the Ancillary series by now, you probably should. Ann Leckie's sociopolitical space opera almost singlehandedly breathed new cool into the stereotype of spaceships trundling through far-off systems amid laser battles. ... [Ancillary Mercy] earns the credit it's received: As a capstone to a series that shook genre expectations, as our closing installment of an immersively realized world, and as the poignant story of a ship that learned to sing."―NPR Books on Ancillary Mercy
"Powerful."―The New York Times on Ancillary Sword
"Unexpected, compelling and very cool. Ann Leckie nails it...I've never met a heroine like Breq before. I consider this a very good thing indeed."―John Scalzi
"Ancillary Justice is the mind-blowing space opera you've been needing...This is a novel that will thrill you like the page-turner it is, but stick with you for a long time afterward."―i09.com (included in 'This Fall's Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books')
"It's not every day a debut novel by an author you'd never heard of before derails your entire afternoon with its brilliance. But when my review copy of Ancillary Justice arrived, that's exactly what it did. In fact, it arrowed upward to reach a pretty high position on my list of best space opera novels ever."―Liz Bourke, Tor.com
"Establishes Leckie as an heir to Banks and Cherryh."―Elizabeth Bear
"A double-threaded narrative proves seductive, drawing the reader into the naive but determined protagonist's efforts to transform an unjust universe. Leckie uses...an expansionist galaxy-spinning empire [and] a protagonist on a single-minded quest for justice to transcend space-opera conventions in innovative ways. This impressive debut succeeds in making Breq a protagonist readers will invest in, and establishes Leckie as a talent to watch."―Publishers Weekly
"By turns thrilling, moving and awe-inspiring."―The Guardian
"Leckie does a very good job of setting this complex equation up... This is an altogether promising debut."―Kirkus
"Using the format of SF military adventure blended with hints of space opera, Leckie explores the expanded meaning of human nature and the uneasy balance between individuality and membership in a group identity. Leckie is a newcomer to watch as she expands on the history and future of her new and exciting universe."―Library Journal
"Leckie's debut gives casual and hardcore sci-fi fans alike a wonderful read."―RT Book Reviews
"A sharply written space opera with a richly imagined sense of detail and place, this debut novel from Ann Leckie works as both an evocative science fiction tale and an involving character study...it's also a strongly female-driven piece, tackling ideas about politics and gender in a way that's both engaging and provocative...Ancillary Justice is a gripping read that's well worth a look."―SFX (UK)
"It engages, it excites, and it challenges the way the reader views our world. Leckie may be a former Secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but she's the President of this year's crop of debut novelists. Ancillary Justice might be the best science fiction novel of this very young decade."―Justin Landon Staffer's Book Review
"Total gamechanger. Get it, read it, wish to hell you'd written it. Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice may well be the most important book Orbit have published in ages."―Paul Graham Raven
"The sort of book that the Clarke Award wishes it had last year ... be prepared to see Ancillary Justice bandied around a lot come awards season. (As it should be)."―Jared Shurin Pornokitsch
About the Author
Ann Leckie has worked as a waitress, a receptionist, a rodman on a land-surveying crew, a lunch lady, and a recording engineer. The author of many published short stories, and former secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America, she lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, children, and cats.
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329 of 367 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful, intelligent, and surprising
By TChris
There are echoes of C.J. Cherryh, Iain Banks, and Frank Herbert in Ancillary Justice. The novel is both familiar and fresh. The writing is powerful and tense. The plot -- about which I will say little, lest I risk spoiling it -- is intelligent and surprising.
The Radchaii are human but they consider themselves superior to other humans. The Lord of the Radch, Anaander Mianaai, controls Radch space with the help of thousands of genetically identical, linked bodies. Extra bodies seem handy (wish I had some) but they prove to have unforeseen consequences. The Radch rule by conquest, annexing other human worlds and forcing their inhabitants to join the Radch or to surrender their bodies to be used as ancillaries, otherwise known as corpse soldiers (an ancient practice that has been mostly abandoned). They justify their actions with the belief that they are imposing order and justice on the universe. They control annexed planets by coopting the privileged class, allowing them to retain their social status provided they embrace the Radch. The one exception is Garsedd, a planet the Radch destroyed because the Garseddai posed a threat the Radch could not tolerate.
The protagonist of Ancillary Justice, having been manufactured by the Radchaai, is sometimes a ship called Justice of Toren, sometimes an ancillary called One Esk, sometimes other ancillaries. As the novel begins, however, the protagonist is called Breq. All of those identities should be the same, but Justice of Toren/One Esk/Breq is having an identity crisis. No longer endowed with the abilities of an AI, Breq has the weaknesses of a human ... without quite being human. In the first pages, Breq saves a Radchaai named Seivarden (who once served on Justice of Toren) from hypothermia. The story then alternates between the present (Breq is tracking someone in order to obtain something ... more than that I won't reveal) and a past in which One Esk was serving the Radchaai, who had just used ruthless means to annex a planet called Shis'urna. The final element of the story is the Presger, a race of aliens who once made pests of themselves by dismantling Radch ships.
The novel's background is more intricate than I've sketched out here. It is initially confusing ... but initial confusion caused by complexity is better than boredom caused by pages of exposition. Everything falls into place well before the novel's midway point. Ann Leckie plays with gender and culture and religion in ways that are compelling but subtle. Her prose is robust.
The story builds upon a familiar moral struggle -- whether to follow unjust orders if the penalty for disobedience is death. If doing the right thing will have dire personal consequences, is it best to do the right thing only when it will make a difference? And how does one know whether doing the right will make a difference? These are difficult questions and Ancillary Justice brings them into sharp focus in different ways. More than one character, not all of them human, must make a choice of that nature. Ancillary Justice makes the point that virtue is easy to achieve in the abstract but easily vanishes when the lives of the "virtuous" are at stake. It makes the equally salient point that it is easy to judge when it isn't your life that is at stake. At the same time, this isn't a preachy novel. Leckie leaves it to the reader to draw whatever lessons might be taken from it. The blend of philosophy and adventure, the imaginative culture-building, and the strong characters all add up to an impressive work of science fiction.
134 of 159 people found the following review helpful.
Mind-Blowing Space Opera
By H. P.
Ancillary Justice is nothing if not ambitious. The main character is the remainder of a self-aware starship capable of diffuse thought through dozens of reanimated human shells, the story takes place in parallel over two time periods, scenes sometimes switch between locations paragraph-to-paragraph, and the main society has very, um, different views on gender.
In the present timeline, she is Breq, to outsiders seemingly human. In the flashback timeline, she is Justice of Toren, a self-aware troop transport starship manned by human lieutenants and an army of reanimated human shells (called ancillaries, hence the title, or referred to derisively as corpse soldiers) that are also each her.
Leckie has created a world that allows her to play around with gender extensively. Not because she's created an escapist fantasy where inconvenient gender differences are ignored, but because she has used the possibilities of science fiction to change all the rules. The Radchaii don't have gendered pronouns (the narrative used female pronouns) and evidently, through advanced science, blur biological gender lines freely (and Breq remains thoroughly confused by the idea). But it's really language that Leckie is playing with, and it's the reader, not the characters, who is more effected. It would be hard to overemphasize how much of a mind-screw it is to not know the gender of characters. The mind keeps trying to shove characters into predetermined boxes, until finally it relents and admits it doesn't matter for the story Leckie is telling.
Ancillary Justice is firmly in the space opera sub-genre, with self-aware starships whose engines burn hotter than stars, invisible guns, and internally stored armor. There is an ice-covered planet and a swampy one. The main society is a great human empire spanning galaxies, one formerly ever-expanding and now locked into an uneasy truce with powerful aliens. One run by a single woman (man?) who discovered the key to power and immortality was cloning herself, each clone a genetically identical copy with a shared intelligence.
Looking at the above I'm at a loss to explain it more clearly. Ancillary Justice is a book that requires a lot of intellectual heavy lifting in the early going to fight through the gender thing, follow the story, put together the pieces, and get a handle on what's going on. It's also far better than my own or any other explanation I've read makes it sound. It's a Big Idea book: one with truly big ideas that are explored intelligently and insightfully (more Big Idea books fail at these than truly succeed).
Disclosure: I received an advance copy of Ancillary Justice via NetGalley.
241 of 292 people found the following review helpful.
I really wanted to like this book more than I did
By Brian A. Schar
I was excited to download this novel, because based on the description it had everything I liked - high space opera, unique concepts, and big scope. I won't bore you by repeating the plot summary already provided for this book. It sounded like something different.
To some extent it was. One of the things that gets a lot of discussion is the gender neutrality of the book, and the use of the term "she" to describe everyone. It's different and interesting. And, given that Breq is a humanoid instantiation of the AI that ran the ship Justice of Toren, one would expect Breq to have a much different view of gender, and to place much less emphasis on it, than biological humans born into one gender or another. However, at some point the novelty wears off. We learn the gender of some characters, but not others. Why? There's no rhyme or reason as to why it's apparently important to know in certain instances but not in other instances. In addition, there is no reason why Breq wouldn't note the gender of another person to him/herself in the same manner that he/she would note the color of the walls, without ascribing any more significance than that to the fact.
However, the real flaw in this novel, and the reason why I gave it 2 stars instead of 4, is the pacing. This book is badly paced. Period. Act 1 takes up the first half of this book. And not a lot happens in Act 1. It's talky, and stuff happens, but for no apparent reason, and there is no narrative drive for anyone to do anything. "Languid" might be the most descriptive word for Act 1. Then a lot of stuff happens all at once. So I got excited, but then not a lot else happens for a while. Act 3 is crammed into about 10% of the novel, and then we get one of the least exciting and most anticlimactic "climaxes" I've read for quite some time. Then the novel just ends, at a point where you know the second novel is going to start.
Finally, I felt the descriptions of a lot of the places in this novel were lacking. I had a very generic picture in my head for most of the locations, and didn't really feel transported to the exotic locations that they were supposed to be.
I understand the SF novel trilogy/series, and I know it's the standard format for these things. But you have to provide some actual ending, instead of just stopping. I felt that was strongly absent here.
I might read the second novel; I might not. I'm ambivalent at this point. I really love the creativity of this novel, but more polish and more editing are definitely needed.
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