Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice

A Critical Companion

English language

Published Sept. 23, 2022 by Springer International Publishing AG.

ISBN:
978-3-031-18260-0
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NB! This is not Ancilliary Justice, but a crititical companion.

This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters.

3 editions

reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)

Review of 'Ancillary Justice' on 'Goodreads'

Ancillary Justice is a great science fiction story set in a richly detailed universe. It may be dangerous to compare it to such a classic, but this really is in the league of Dune.

The story is all about Breq and her mission. She is looking for revenge, something she’s not really supposed to feel, because she is an AI that used to lead 1000s of soldiers and had control over a ship that could destroy planets. All in the name of the Radch.

She has been in this mission of revenge for twenty years and the book tells the story what lead to the events and how it all ends.

It takes a bit of getting used to some of the peculiarities of the book (I don’t want to spoil anything) but once you enter its universe, there is no way back.

reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)

Review of 'Ancillary Justice' on 'Goodreads'

J'essayerai d'en dire plus plus tard, mais rapidement pour l'instant, voici mon avis.
une parenté stylistique évidente avec l'œuvre de Ian M Banks, et en particulier Excession, est forcément une bonne chose pour moi. Mais ce roman y ajoute une finesse, une subtilité dans les personnages et le monde (difficile puisque Banks était déjà un auteur de la finesse) qui sont extrêmement plaisants. En bonus, certains artefacts d'écriture rendent assez bien, et en particulier la grammaire de la langue où le féminin est le genre par défaut.
J'ai envie de dire que la relève du space-opera est assurée... Sauf que ça n'est qu'un premier tome...

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