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.