![]() The culture defaults to describing everyone in the feminine, resulting in odd moments when a character you've spent a dozen pages mentally picturing as female actually turns out to be male. The Radchaai do not believe in gender differentiation and go to some lengths to keep their gender unclear. ![]() She's also effectively possessing a dead body and suffers from a cultural bias. Breq is a tiny, splintered part of a much vaster, destroyed intelligence and has difficulties in relating to other people and the world around her. The most striking is the one of identity. It's an interesting SF novel which riffs on a whole load of ideas. Breq, now driven by grief and vengeance, goes in search of the only weapon that can accomplish her goal.Īncillary Justice is the debut novel by American author Ann Leckie, who has already established herself as a writer of short stories. ![]() The Justice was destroyed more than twenty years ago, with Breq as the sole survivor and the only person to hold a secret that could tear the interstellar empire known as the Radch apart. Breq is an ancillary, an animated corpse possessed by the controlling intelligence of a vast starship, the Justice of Toren. ![]()
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