Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, 1)

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Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, 1)

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Ancilliary justice is the story of an artificial intelligence. Many characters are, in one way or another, transhuman narrators or stem from alien societies. The author innovates artificial intelligence into a decent narrator while creating a new lite... Read More

Ancillary justice is a novel by ann leckie about a conscious, intelligent spaceship. Justice of toren is an artificial intelligence built to run a ship and its staff. The ships all have their favorite officers, one starship ancillary, on a long and br... Read More

Ship people always use she!

Cons

The first three books were a chore to read. I love sci-fi but was disappointed that this novel that has been much praised is relatively drab and unengaging. Comparing this book to banks' is disrespectful to his memory.

It is as indecipherable and boring as the 1* reviewers say. You are unsure what is happening, nor do you care. Boring, disjointed, poorly executed.

There is nothing in this story that encourages the reader to empathize with or recognize one character from another. The writing was so convoluted that i never got much of a picture.

Dense prose, but anemic plot. The prose is awkward and cumbersome. The result is an uninteresting melange of substances.

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Quality

Honestly i was getting increasingly befuddled with the plot and especially character motivations around 23 of the way but i sho... Read More

Indeed it has gotten to the point where if i fully understand an sf novel the first time i read it i am almost disappointed

It is interesting to note however that gender is a lot less important aspect of character development than we might think

Shipping

I blazed through this in 5 days or so which is pretty fast for me these days

Besides inhabiting the ship her consciousness inhabits multiple human bodies ancillaries

Spoiler background info not plot elements the space ships in the book are sentient and they have human ancillaries basically a... Read More

Competitiveness

If you want detailed worldbuilding a fascinating culture a protagonist unlike any youve ever met you will love this

I guess i have convinced myself that this is a 5star book

Takes alittle concentration when reading to keep things straight

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This product had a total of 18,312 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 25 2023.