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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) (edition 2013)

by Ann Leckie (Author)

Series: Imperial Radch (1)

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Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
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Title:Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch)
Authors:Ann Leckie (Author)
Info:Orbit (2013), Edition: Later Printing, 416 pages
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    lquilter: Fans of either Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness or Leckie's Ancillary Justice should enjoy the other. In common, the pacing, character-centered perspective obscuring aspects of the universe, political machinations, far-future setting, and treatment of ethics; also interesting for its simultaneous foregrounding and backgrounding of gender.… (more)
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    g33kgrrl: Both books feature complex, political space sci-fi with amazing characters and world-building.
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    Ghost Spin by Chris Moriarty (libron)
    libron: Ancillary Justice is great - but for a nuanced, riveting treatment of AI, Moriarty has her beat, hands down. I hope to see more rigorous explorations in future of what Leckie has limned in her first outing.
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    Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason (libron)
    libron: Arnason's depiction of an alternative (alien) gender/social structure is awesome. I hope Leckie can flesh her own ideas out further beyond pronoun ambiguity in forthcoming books.
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    sandstone78: Some of the dynamics in Leckie's Ancillary Justice remind me of the much more obscure single-volume space opera Wright's A Matter of Oaths about two warring immortal emperors and a protagonist with a mysterious connection to them- if you like one, you may like the other.… (more)
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    sandstone78: Leckie has said that Cherryh's Foreigner books were a big influence on Ancillary Justice and sequels
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E: Incredibe worldbuilding, and I loved the character voice, snd it's such a hard thing to get right when you're trying to make a non-human voice sound non-human. I feel like the plot definitely played second fiddle to getting play with the set pieces and ideas of person-hood, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment, and well, it's book one in a trilogy. ( )
  EasterGenua | Jun 17, 2024 |
I enjoyed it. It's been praised for its treatment of gender issues but I didn't think it had much to say on that (the whole pronoun thing seemed to me rather gimmicky). The best part was the "shared-conscience" thing and, above all, the emperor and his internal problems.

I thought it was an adequate adventure, with good characterization and a rather dystopian far-future society that seemed suitably different to ours without going completely overboard. The biggest problem for me was the lack of interest in many aspects of world-building. I would have liked to find out much more about that universe, but the glimpse we got of it was very limited. ( )
  jcm790 | May 26, 2024 |
AstroNavi senzienti, alieni, AI,confitti morali

stupendo!!! ( )
  LLonaVahine | May 22, 2024 |
Que maravilla de ciencia ficción. Una inteligencia artificial tan extensa, con capacidad para controlar miles de cuerpos, atrapada en un cuerpo individual. Una galaxia dominada por un imperio extenso y a veces cruel.

Al principio quiza cuesta hacerse con el mundo, pero a medida que lo vas leyendo se hace cada vez más disfrutable e intenso. Me ha enganchado, sobretodo pasado el ecuador del libro. Voy a tener que correr a por el siguiente de la trilogia. ( )
  Cabask | Mar 27, 2024 |
I bought this because it won the 2014 Hugo for Best Novel, and I can see why! Leckie has performed a marvelous feat of world- and culture-building in this novel.

There is one aspect of this, though, that took some getting used to. In the main culture of the story, they don't make any gender distinction: even though there are biological sexes, everyone is referred to as "she" and "her". There are hints in the narration that indicate which sex some of the characters are; but it is hard to get and hold a mental image of the character, especially when at 20% of the way through the story you find that someone is biologically male and you didn't know until then.

Still, I was going to immediately purchase the sequel. But it isn't available yet. (Soon, though...) ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
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Canonical title
Ancillary Justice
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
2013-10-01
People/Characters
Breq
Anaander Mianaai
Seivarden Vendaai
Awn Elming
Skaaiat Awer
Important places
Radch Empire
Nilt
Shis'urna
Omaugh Palace
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
For my parents, Mary P. and David N. Dietzler, who didn't live to see this book but were always sure it would exist.
First words
The body lay naked and facedown, a deathly gray, spatters of blood staining the snow around it.
Quotations
Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Bouman, Tom
Hill, Jenni
Blurbers
Scalzi, John
Bear, Elizabeth
Original language
English
Canonical DDC/MDS
813.6
Canonical LCC
PS3612.E3353
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Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
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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. - Goodreads.com
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It's alive... or dead.
A.I. or human? Who cares!
She, or he, is BREQ!
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