Ancillary Justice

, #1

Google Play eBook, 327 pages

English language

Published Feb. 22, 2013 by Hachette UK, Google Ireland Ltd.

ISBN:
978-1-4055-2584-8
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4 stars (3 reviews)

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Once, she was the Justice of Toren--a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.

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

  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • Space Opera
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hard Science Fiction
  • Military Fiction