![]() ![]() ![]() She's assigned to a border station, where she'll contend with conflicts that the people in power would prefer to keep hidden, whether aboard station or on the planet below - and, amid the first whispers of war, both inside and outside the Empire.īut even with that epic at the edges, Ancillary Sword concerns itself with the realities that were only on the fringes of its predecessor. It quickly ties up lingering threads, and sends Breq out at the helm of a ship. After the deliberate but suspenseful Ancillary Justice, which was both a tricky character study and a thriller of small-stakes revenge on an accidentally vast scale, Ancillary Sword is, quite contentedly, a different beast. ![]() It's to the benefit of Ancillary Sword that it doesn't seem to much care. Clarke Awards, which means two things: One, this is the sort of space opera audiences have been waiting for two, all eyes are on Ancillary Sword. It went on to win the Nebula, Hugo and Arthur C. Last year, Anne Leckie's Ancillary Justice introduced Breq, the reanimated-corpse soldier (called an ancillary) separated from her starship's hive mind, out for revenge against the Radchaai Empire that made her, and stymied by the terrible inconveniences of conscience. "Oh, tree! Eat the fish! This granite folds a peach!" Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ancillary Sword Author Ann Leckie ![]()
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