Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice

A Critical Companion

English language

Published Sept. 23, 2022 by Springer International Publishing AG.

ISBN:
978-3-031-18260-0
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NB! This is not Ancilliary Justice, but a crititical companion.

This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters.

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reviewed Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)

Ancillary Justice, some meta

The transhumanism treatment was interesting and well done, might have carried the book for me more than the plot even.

A year and change ago, reading the Terra Ignota tetralogy, watching Foundation S1 and reading the Teixcalaan duology got me really fed up with reading about empires and emperors and the equivalence of both. I was happy to discover that, even though it does have an empire and an emperor in important roles, this book didn't hit the same notes at all.

(I'd like to have more to say about it, but I listened to this and the sequel on low spoons/bad brain days.)