Ancillary Justice

, #1

Paperback, 384 pages

English language

Published July 28, 2013 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-356-50240-3
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OCLC Number:
863038839

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

Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship and an artificial intelligence controlling thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. But that might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her.

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reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)

Imaginative Space Opera

Really enjoyed this book. In some ways it's a classic space opera but there's enough twists on the formula that it feels super fresh. Fascinating explorations of identity, language, and class. The writing was fun and engaging, I ate this book up.

Cool space opera

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.

reviewed La justice de l'ancillaire by Ann Leckie (Les chroniques du Radch, #1)

Bangerrrrrrrrrrr

La narratrice est une IA de vaisseau spatial qui se retrouve dans un corps humain. Elle poursuit un but personnel bien précis dans un immense empire implacable, dont le caractère totalitaire atteint des proportions difficilement égalables.

J’étais réticent à lire un space opera de plus, mais réduire La justice de l’ancillaire au fait qu’on y voyage dans l’espace serait comme réduire Les Dépossédés d’Ursula Le Guin au fait qu’on y parle de physique fondaamentale. Le livre est prenant dès les premières pages, bien écrit, et c’est un immense plaisir de voir se développer l’aventure humaine (si on peut dire) que vivent les protagonistes. Il y a également un fond philosophique solide et passionnant sur les IA conscientes (ma petite obsession personnelle), les régimes impérialistes et le sens de l’action individuelle dans une société tyrannique.

Un bijou !

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