Ancillary Sword
by Anne Leckie · 2015
Buy on AmazonAncillary Sword is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in October 2014. It is the second novel in Leckie's "Imperial Radch" space opera trilogy, which began with Ancillary Justice (2013) and ended with Ancillary Mercy (2015). The novel was generally well-received by critics, received the BSFA Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and was nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards.
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"Anne Leckie’s debut, Ancillary Justice, provided vast distances, sentient spaceships and a galactic empire in crisis. Against this grand backdrop there was a thoughtful examination of loyalty and the fragmentation of identity. Set in the same world of Imperial Radch, her second book finds the protagonist Breq tasked with the protection of the sibling of a friend she fatally betrayed. Once part of the shared consciousness of a mighty warship and all its troops, Breq is now a soldier, reduced to a single body and mind — confined and mortal. Through her, the reader is urged to examine just what it is that makes us truly human."
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