Ancillary Justice

eBook, 393 pages

Published Jan. 8, 2013 by Orbit.

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4 stars (5 reviews)

Sequels: Ancillary Sword; Ancillary Mercy.

7 editions

Cool space opera

4 stars

This is a fun space opera that has all the fun space opera things: giant interstellar empires; worldbuilding on various interstellar cultures, and how they interact with each other, and how they do gender; exploration of how cognition and identity works in entities that are not (or not entirely) human; grand plots and conspiracies.

The overall plot is perhaps a bit simple, and some of the characters lean perhaps too much into one-dimensional archetypes, but it does not matter that much against the lively worldbuilding, and how it ties into the whole story.