Ancillary Mercy
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Ancillary Mercy
| Author | Ann Leckie |
|---|---|
| Published | 2015 |
| Pages | 359 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The close of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, in which an empire ruled by one mind living in many bodies — whose copies have stopped agreeing — comes to a head. It asks directly what a mind running on many instances owes the instances, and who counts as a person when personhood is an administrative category. |
Ancillary Mercy
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, B tier (“also worth reading”), volume three of the Imperial Radch entry, which they describe as “dramatic and often funny,” about revenge, politics and consciousness.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Ann Leckie — the author.
- Ancillary Justice · Ancillary Sword — volumes one and two.
- Identity — the trilogy’s running question.
- 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.