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Ancillary Justice
A Science Fiction Novel by Ann Leckie
Book 1 of the Imperial Radch Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Space Opera,
- Artificial Intelligence,
- Revenge
This book is for you if you're into...
- Machine intelligence grappling with identity in a single human body
- Space operas exploring fractured selves and moral conflict
From Little Stack
Ancillary Justice presents one of the most unique machine intelligence stories in modern sci-fi. The machine possesses “ancillaries”, human bodies that have been repurposed to give form to the AI, and thus a way for it to interact with and regulate the world within the starship it has been built to operate. But where the bodies are simply meant to be tools, the more we spend time with them, the more we (through the AI) develop a connection to the “selves” that are the bodies. Now, the ancillaries are reduced to just one, and the entire consciousness of the ship is trapped inside a single human form with all its frailties and weaknesses.
It’s a fascinating look at identity and the concept of “personhood” in a wonderfully digestible story.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. 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.
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