Provenance (Imperial Radch)

by Ann Leckie

a wide, open space

I personally would leave out the comma, but if I were her editor I'd probably allow it, given that this is the only even potential copy editing issue in the entire book.

“Everything will be going on whether we eat or not. And it’s easier to think things through when you’re not hungry and thirsty.”

it was simple enough—for certain values of ‘simple’—to break into their mechs’ controls and use them ourselves,

Something that we've been repeatedly told would be difficult to the point of impossible.