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Quality


I slowly very slowly sunk in and found myself being impressed with the author for creating this universe


I enjoyed reading and am curious about the rest of the series


This is actually a character flaw for breq being an ancillary herself she is an unreliable narrator and often confuses the corr...  Read More


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

Shipping


If you enjoyed the ships of excession or art from the murderbot diaries one esk is another ship you may want to meet


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 34ancillaries34


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

Competitiveness


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


However thinking about it i believe it was more of a push back on the male dominance in science fiction

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
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  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 78.2% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 18,566 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 10 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The historical inspiration is quite obvious though


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is not necessarily a 34hard sf34 setting


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The causalitytime travel paradoxes that would be caused by ftl are not mentioned or addressed


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There is some effort at explaining limitation of the magiclevel technologies but other things are handwaved


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    One interesting aspect is that the dominant culture does not care about gender whatsoever and their language has no gender either


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    In english the author uses the pronoun 34she34 for all human beings since the story is told from the pov of a character from the dominant culture


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This could have been written by margaret atwood


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    She is an 34ancillary34 hence her pov isnt necessarily that of a single normal human being

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