![]() ![]() That idea is tweaked and twisted throughout the book in super novel ways that I don’t want to spoil - I’ll just say it is very unique and gives a ton of depth to both the characters and plot! There are so many things about this book I love, but I’ll try to pick just a few to highlight:įirst, having a single AI experiencing the world through many interlinked human bodies is just a deeply interesting idea. ![]() The book follows two parallel timelines – one as Breq, now reduced to a single ancillary body, closes in on the end of her quest for revenge, and the other set twenty years in the past and covering the events leading up to her betrayal. The ancillaries are terrifying soldiers – each one is protected by almost impenetrable armor, and the AI never miss a shot. Here’s the setup (back of the book style):īreq used to be the Justice of Toren - a huge, complex AI that inhabited a colossal starship and all of its thousands of ancillaries in the service of the Radch, the largest of the human empires.Īncillaries are human bodies that were captured in previous Radchaai annexations – those who resist the takeover are killed and their bodies frozen and stored, ready to be activated and controlled by Radchaai AI in future annexations. Definitely one of my favorite sci-fi books of the last ten years! Such an incredible debut novel from Ann Leckie. ![]()
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