The second one, Ancillary Sword, didn’t quite have the same magic and did that thing that sequels have often done and often done badly: raised the stakes exponentially without raising the emotion or the drama. The first book in this trilogy – Ancillary Justice – was brilliant and exactly that: a dual-timelined masterpiece that neatly wove narrative twists, high stakes, questions about sentience and explorations of disconnectedness into a cracking piece of science fiction high adventure. I picked it because, as you can imagine, the holidays are not a great time for me (I lack sufficient people in my life to make any supposedly group or community geared experience hold anything but sorrow #boohoohoo) and I wanted to read something exciting, something frothy, something not too demanding and something that would keep me nicely distracted from the fact that I don’t really exist in any meaningful way. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.I read this book – the finale of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary trilogy, over Christmas. Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction. And only one purpose - to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai, many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.īreq is both more than she seems and less than she was. There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. This special boxed set contains all three novels in NYT bestselling author Ann Leckie's Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning space opera trilogy a bout a ship's AI who becomes trapped in a human body, and her quest for revenge.
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