Ancillary Sword

"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."