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Loading... Ancillary Justice: THE HUGO, NEBULA AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD WINNER: 1 (Imperial Radch) (edition 2013)by Ann Leckie (Author)
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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. ( ) 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. 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. 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...) Is contained inAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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