Ancillary Justice
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Ancillary Justice
| Author | Ann Leckie |
|---|---|
| Published | 2013 |
| Pages | 409 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Ann Leckie’s Hugo-winning novel narrated by a former warship: ship intelligences run many human bodies at once as “ancillaries,” and the book opens with the single body left of a troop carrier working out who destroyed the rest. The distributed-mind premise is the engine — what survives when a system loses most of its instances but keeps its state. |
Ancillary Justice
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, B tier (“also worth reading”), as volume one of the Imperial Radch trilogy. They compare it to Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels and note Leckie’s choice to call every character “she” regardless of gender.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Ann Leckie — the author.
- Ancillary Sword · Ancillary Mercy — volumes two and three.
- Identity — what the ancillary premise is actually about.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.