Ancillary Justice
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Leckie, Ann |
| Series: | Imperial Radch |
| Subject: | FICTION / Action & Adventure |
| FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure | |
| FICTION / Science Fiction / General | |
| FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera | |
| Audience: | general/trade |
| Publisher: | Orbit |
| Published: | October 2013 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Size: | 8.25in x 5.50in x 1.25in |
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- $ 22.99
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | The only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards and the first book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling trilogy. On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance. In the Ancillary world: 1. Ancillary Justice2. Ancillary Sword3. Ancillary Mercy |
| Review Quote* | "If you don't know the Ancillary series by now, you probably should. Ann Leckie's sociopolitical space opera almost singlehandedly breathed new cool into the stereotype of spaceships trundling through far-off systems amid laser battles. ... [Ancillary Mercy] earns the credit it's received: As a capstone to a series that shook genre expectations, as our closing installment of an immersively realized world, and as the poignant story of a ship that learned to sing."-NPR Books on Ancillary Mercy |
| Review Quote* | "Powerful."-The New York Times on Ancillary Sword |
| Review Quote* | "Unexpected, compelling and very cool. Ann Leckie nails it...I've never met a heroine like Breq before. I consider this a very good thing indeed."-John Scalzi |
| Review Quote* | "Ancillary Justice is the mind-blowing space opera you've been needing...This is a novel that will thrill you like the page-turner it is, but stick with you for a long time afterward."-i09.com (included in 'This Fall's Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books') |
| Review Quote* | "It's not every day a debut novel by an author you'd never heard of before derails your entire afternoon with its brilliance. But when my review copy of Ancillary Justice arrived, that's exactly what it did. In fact, it arrowed upward to reach a pretty high position on my list of best space opera novels ever."-Liz Bourke, Tor.com |
| Review Quote* | "Establishes Leckie as an heir to Banks and Cherryh."-Elizabeth Bear |
| Review Quote* | "A double-threaded narrative proves seductive, drawing the reader into the naive but determined protagonist's efforts to transform an unjust universe. Leckie uses...an expansionist galaxy-spinning empire [and] a protagonist on a single-minded quest for justice to transcend space-opera conventions in innovative ways. This impressive debut succeeds in making Breq a protagonist readers will invest in, and establishes Leckie as a talent to watch."-Publishers Weekly |
| Review Quote* | "By turns thrilling, moving and awe-inspiring."-The Guardian |
| Review Quote* | "Leckie does a very good job of setting this complex equation up... This is an altogether promising debut."-Kirkus |