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Wow wow wowwow. This is an awesome book. Astonishingly original, delicately executed, deftly paced, and extraordinarily well-told. The whole premise is fascinating enough, and could have been interesting in the hands of a merely competent author. But Leckie takes the book, which could easily have come off as stilted or a thought exercise, and breathes life into it. Wonderful characters, and an amazing story.
It is true science fiction, in that she drops you in the middle and lets you figure ...more
Wow wow wowwow. This is an awesome book. Astonishingly original, delicately executed, deftly paced, and extraordinarily well-told. The whole premise is fascinating enough, and could have been interesting in the hands of a merely competent author. But Leckie takes the book, which could easily have come off as stilted or a thought exercise, and breathes life into it. Wonderful characters, and an amazing story.
It is true science fiction, in that she drops you in the middle and lets you figure ...more
Maybe 3.5 stars, rounded for good measure. A very different type of sci-fi story that was not what I was expecting. I went into this thinking space battles and such and ended up with emotion and loyalty and other such things. A pleasant surprise.
I don't really give it a full 4 stars for a couple little reasons. A 4-star book is one I don't want to put down. I was perfectly able to set this one down when needed. I was actually one chapter from the end, right at the culmination of a major scene, ...more
I don't really give it a full 4 stars for a couple little reasons. A 4-star book is one I don't want to put down. I was perfectly able to set this one down when needed. I was actually one chapter from the end, right at the culmination of a major scene, ...more
Ancillary Justice has a ship’s AI as its narrator. Although actually it’s a bit more complicated than that, because the AI is housed in a human body—a tribute exacted by a conquering interstellar empire from one of its colonized peoples—and there’s strong hints that some of that person’s erased mind still influences the AI. It’s a fantastically nuanced portrayal, at once believably alien and heartbreakingly human. There’s also plenty of action and space-intrigue and murder and skulduggery, which
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Excellently done, with great worldbuilding and concept work. I definitely understand the buzz it's been getting.
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Really solid world building but the characters' development is really lacking to the point where I'm still not sure about why the protagonist feels about certain characters other than the surface directions. At times the plot felt really slow but I found myself similarly intrigued about the presence of aliens and what other fantastical world building awaits. Normally, I wouldn't continue a series given the average rating but I feel that so much can be done with the universe that the author has c
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finished 8/15/14
I really liked this book and upon finishing, wished the second was out so I could keep reading about Breq, Seivarden, and the politics of the Radch. It was difficult to get past the female pronouns and envisioning ladies when it was used, even when I knew a character was male. Many characters don't get any gendering outside the default "she" that the Radch use, leaving much to the reader's imagination, but I think that in using that convention Leckie is trying to bring attention ...more
I really liked this book and upon finishing, wished the second was out so I could keep reading about Breq, Seivarden, and the politics of the Radch. It was difficult to get past the female pronouns and envisioning ladies when it was used, even when I knew a character was male. Many characters don't get any gendering outside the default "she" that the Radch use, leaving much to the reader's imagination, but I think that in using that convention Leckie is trying to bring attention ...more
I feel like I would have enjoyed this more if I hadn't listened to it with an app without variable speed. Seriously, OneClickDigital! Get it together!!
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I don't know if my expectations were too high or what, but I found this book kind of boring. I admire a lot about it: the introduction of truly different ways of thinking far in the human future, and the questions it asks about AI, but reading it was kind of a slog.
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