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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
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- This product had a total of 18,566 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 10 2023.
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The historical inspiration is quite obvious though
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It is not necessarily a 34hard sf34 setting
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The causalitytime travel paradoxes that would be caused by ftl are not mentioned or addressed
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There is some effort at explaining limitation of the magiclevel technologies but other things are handwaved
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One interesting aspect is that the dominant culture does not care about gender whatsoever and their language has no gender either
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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
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This could have been written by margaret atwood
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She is an 34ancillary34 hence her pov isnt necessarily that of a single normal human being
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