Ancillary SwordThe sequel to Ancillary Justice, the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards, and the second book in Ann Leckie's New York Times bestselling series. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor. With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood. In the Ancillary world: 1. Ancillary Justice2. Ancillary Sword3. Ancillary Mercy |
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User Review - ChrisRiesbeck - LibraryThingA readable but surprisingly lightweight entry for the 2nd book in a trilogy. The first book impressed with a narrative razzle-dazzle atypical for space opera, but still chock full of extreme action ... Read full review
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User Review - Stevil2001 - LibraryThingAncillary Justice was a book with a lot of a narrative drive: you kept reading because you both wanted to know how Breq had ended up in her situation, and because you wanted to know how she would ... Read full review
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| Title | Ancillary Sword Imperial Radch |
| Author | Ann Leckie |
| Publisher | Orbit, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0316246646, 9780316246644 |
| Length | 400 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Exploration Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera |
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