Ancillary Justice

hardcover, 558 pages

Published Jan. 7, 2015 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-7586-2
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Sequels: Ancillary Sword; Ancillary Mercy.

11 editions

Ancillary Justice

It's comfort reread season over here. This book has enough reviews and awards it doesn't need another general review from me on the pile, so mostly I'm wondering about what makes this book a comfort reread for me (and many others)?

Partially it's that thematically it hits really strong notes. It's a story about justice, and revenge against an empire. It's about not trusting empires, no matter who is running them at the time. But it's also about second chances, leaning on friends, finding new ways of being, and the value of small actions even when you can't solve everything.

And even if the tyrant’s protestations were insincere, which they ultimately had to be, no matter her intentions at this moment, still she was right. My actions would make some sort of difference, even if small.

The first time I read this book about revenge on an empire at war …

Review of 'Ancillary Justice' on 'Goodreads'

J’ai eu du mal à me mettre dedans, les règles grammaticales sur le genre étant non seulement confusante mais désagréable (j’ai eu l’occasion de lire un livre où tout était genré au féminin « elle pleut », « la bébé », mais ce n’est pas pareil).
Après quelques chapitres (et ayant appris que la version originale était aussi « perturbante » et que ce n’était pas une aberration de traduction), j’ai enfin profité du livre.
Une histoire complexe et très bien ficelée, originale, que j’ai trouvé très rafraîchissante.

Cool space opera

This is a fun space opera that has all the fun space opera things: giant interstellar empires; worldbuilding on various interstellar cultures, and how they interact with each other, and how they do gender; exploration of how cognition and identity works in entities that are not (or not entirely) human; grand plots and conspiracies.

The overall plot is perhaps a bit simple, and some of the characters lean perhaps too much into one-dimensional archetypes, but it does not matter that much against the lively worldbuilding, and how it ties into the whole story.

Review of 'Ancillary Justice' on 'Storygraph'

I completely enjoyed Ancillary Justice and am looking forward to more from Ann Leckie.

For anyone who studies gender in science fiction, I’d consider it a must-read.

I found it also to be an engaging story and I liked her thoughts on how artificial and distributed intelligence might work.

I want to know what will happen in the next book, but this was a self-contained novel. It’s not like we’re going to be waiting years to find out if someone is actually dead or not.

reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)

Review of 'Ancillary Justice' on 'Storygraph'

I completely enjoyed Ancillary Justice and am looking forward to more from Ann Leckie.

For anyone who studies gender in science fiction, I’d consider it a must-read.

I found it also to be an engaging story and I liked her thoughts on how artificial and distributed intelligence might work.

I want to know what will happen in the next book, but this was a self-contained novel. It’s not like we’re going to be waiting years to find out if someone is actually dead or not.

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