![]() ![]() “Except for those hours when communications had been cut off, I had never really lost the sense of being part of Justice of Toren. One of the tensions of the story then is not only understanding the past society of the Radch, but how the narrator changed circumstance so drastically. ![]() The reader gradually understands that the narrator is a ship artificial intelligence who has multiple bodies in the past timeline and only one single humanoid body, ‘Breq,’ in the current. ![]() Leckie uses a classic sci-fi approach and drops the reader into it with the past timeline which takes place on the last assimilated world of the Imperial Radch, and shepherds the reader a little more with the second timeline on a snowy, more isolated planet. There’s a dual narrative, a prior timeline and a current timeline. And while I get parts of the love–it’s far more readable than I expected–it feels very much like a first book, with the accompanying challenges in world-building and plotting. ![]() Everyone, it seemed was raving, from the Hugo/Locus/Nebula Awards to the Incomparable Podcast to the friends who are responsible for 4.11 average rating. I bought Ancillary Justice awhile ago, knowing I needed to read it. ![]()
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