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Ancillary Justice is a novel by Ann Leckie, published on October 1st, 2013. It is Leckie's debut novel, and is the first entry in the Imperial Radch trilogy.

Ancillary Justice was released to critical acclaim, winning several awards. A notable concept of the novel is that the society it depicts, the Radch, does not distinguish people by gender. The Radchaai language, which is the language spoken in the majority of the book, uses female personal pronouns for everyone; which is contrasted to other languages spoken, which have gendered pronouns.

Publisher's Summary[]

From Orbit Books:[1]

"On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.

Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren– a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.

An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one purpose– to revenge herself on Anaander Mianaai, many-bodied, near-immortal Lord of the Radch."

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