Ancillary Justice

Summary

Breq is the last surviving fragment of a starship artificial intelligence that once controlled thousands of human bodies, and she pursues revenge against the ruler of a vast galactic empire. The novel is celebrated for its handling of identity, colonialism, and a default use of female pronouns that blurs gender across the whole cast. Leckie reimagines space opera through a narrator who is at once a person, a ship, and a weapon.