Ancillary justice

[sound recording] /, 45 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 2014 by Recorded Books.

ISBN:
978-1-4703-9747-0
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OCLC Number:
891665119

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4 stars (3 reviews)

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.

12 editions

Cool space opera

4 stars

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.

Subjects

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Fiction