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Joel Gerber asked this question about Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1):
I didn't quite understand the genders of characters in this book. Everyone is referred to as a female, but that might be because the ship cannot tell the difference? Seems odd since the ship can tell almost everything else about a person's mood.
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And a Wired article about it:
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The AI ships can certainly tell the physical difference between genders, but you have to try to think of this from the perspective of the Radchaai. In their society, gender is completely irrelevant to dating, social issues, etc. So they AI can see (with cameras, etc) that one body has male genitalia and one body has female genitalia, but the AI being a product of the Radchaai, it doesn't matter in any way that is relevant to the story. (less)
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