Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
Nov. 9th, 2013 01:52 pmFacts about ancillary justice:
* The main character is a warship AI (sometimes in the warship and sometimes in remote humanoid drone)
* The language spoken or narrated by the main characters has a gender neutral pronoun, rendered in English as "she". This isn't perfect, but works pretty well. When speaking a foreign language, pronouns are translated as "he" or "she".
* There's some quite rich worldbuilding. The empire the main characters come from feels matter-of-fact, mostly full of normal people, despite being elitist and entitled as a culture. But without being ostentatiously perfect or ostentatiously evil.
* More interesting questions are raised than it has time to answer.
It left me feeling it could have done a bit more, but it was a very interesting modern example of slightly-Banksian space opera.
* The main character is a warship AI (sometimes in the warship and sometimes in remote humanoid drone)
* The language spoken or narrated by the main characters has a gender neutral pronoun, rendered in English as "she". This isn't perfect, but works pretty well. When speaking a foreign language, pronouns are translated as "he" or "she".
* There's some quite rich worldbuilding. The empire the main characters come from feels matter-of-fact, mostly full of normal people, despite being elitist and entitled as a culture. But without being ostentatiously perfect or ostentatiously evil.
* More interesting questions are raised than it has time to answer.
It left me feeling it could have done a bit more, but it was a very interesting modern example of slightly-Banksian space opera.