![]() ![]() Though framed like '70s grindhouse - there was a setup, and someone's out to clean the slate - things unfold studiously, reminiscent of the deliberation underscoring Ursula Le Guin's T he Left Hand of Darkness. It's an advantage: She's out to kill the Lord of the Radch, and her only hope is that no one remembers her. It's a condition so rare no one suspects what she is. ![]() But now, separated in a moment of trauma, she's autonomous. Breq was once the ancillary One Esk and the ship Justice of Toren. ![]() Those troops are ancillaries - sometimes called corpse soldiers - reanimated bodies that now share a single consciousness and act as one. Justice of Toren is a living ship far beyond AI, spending millennia carrying officers and troops for the Radchaai Empire's endless planetary annexations. The assured, gripping and stylish Ancillary Justice is, in its broadest strokes, the tale of an empire, and in its smallest a character study, and part of debut novelist Anne Leckie's achievement is how she handles her protagonists in both of those contexts. "My heart is a fish, hiding in the water-grass."īreq has found someone in the snow: a stranger to everyone on this planet, a thousand years old, a relic out of time - but despite all that, Breq remembers.īreq used to be the ship that carried them both. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ancillary Justice Author Ann Leckie ![]()
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