Each ship and its ancillaries share a unified consciousness.Īt the time the story takes place, the pace of annexations has considerably slowed, as human soldiers increasingly replace ancillaries and other signs of moderation appear. The Radch kills some prisoners of war and keeps the rest frozen on board the troopships for future use as ancillaries: The same artificial intelligence that controls the ship later animates the soldier bodies (non-Radchaai refer to ancillaries as “corpse soldiers”). The word “Radchaai” itself means both “citizen” and “civilized.” The Radch has been expanding aggressively for millennia, “annexing” other planets, eliminating those who resist, and assimilating the survivors into the political order and culture of the Radch. The interstellar empire in which the story takes place is known as the Radch and its inhabitants as Radchaai. The title of the book refers both to the protagonist’s origins as Justice of Toren’s ancillary and to her desire to right past wrongs.

Breq, the first-person narrator and protagonist, embarks on a quest for vengeance. Beautifully written and forward thinking, it does what good science fiction does best, taking readers to bold new worlds with plenty explosions along the way.Ancillary Justice tells the story of Breq, the sole surviving “segment” of the artificial intelligence that once animated an interstellar troop ship, Justice of Toren, and its ancillary soldiers. Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy has become one of the new classics of science fiction.

And only one purpose - to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai, many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.īreq is both more than she seems and less than she was. There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. This special boxed set contains all three novels in NYT bestselling author Ann Leckie's Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning space opera trilogy a bout a ship's AI who becomes trapped in a human body, and her quest for revenge.

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