![]() ![]() In the present of the novel, the protagonist Breq is the sole surviving "ancillary" of a sentient starship called the Justice of Toren which one Mianaai avatar (probably an expansionist) destroyed 19 years ago when its loyalty was sorely tested by being made to kill an officer the ship liked. ![]() This, by the way, is similar to how the ancillary system works: the crew and soldiers of each sentient Radch starship are comprised of up to thousands of human bodies (taken from annexed civs), each simultaneously controlled by (possessed by) the ship AI. For a long time the Empire was bent on constant expansion, the annexation of new worlds and cultures fueling its growth and requiring more annexations, until the Lord of the Radch, Anaander Mianaai, who had divided herself (himself?) into many different bodies so as to better rule the far flung galactic empire, started warring against himself (herself?), one side wanting to stop the aggressive expansion, the other wanting to continue it. The setting is the millennia-old galactic Radch Empire. ![]() Galactic Empires, Sentient Ships, Fragmented Identity, Estranged Gender-Īnn Leckie's Ancillary Justice (2013), winner of the Hugo and Nebula and other awards, is a mostly original, thoughtful, and moving space opera. ![]()
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