Ancillary Justice

Summary

The story follows Breq, who was once the artificial intelligence of a vast starship distributed across many human bodies and is now reduced to a single fragment seeking revenge against the ruler of a galaxy spanning empire. Leckie explores identity, colonial power, and the nature of selfhood, and famously uses she as the default pronoun throughout, which unsettles familiar ideas about gender. The debut launched the acclaimed Imperial Radch trilogy and reshaped conversations in the field.