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 SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS
PART OF THE HUGO-AWARD WINNING SERIES

'Excellent' Book Smugglers

'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world' NPR

'Gripping . . . richly detailed and rewarding' SciFiNow

'Thrilling, out-of-this world stuff' Stylist

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with a thrilling new story of power, theft, privilege and birthright.
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

The Imperial Radch trilogy begins with Ancillary Justice, continues in Ancillary Sword and concludes with Ancillary Mercy.
Also available now: Provenance is a stunning standalone adventure set in the same world as Ancillary Justice. NPR calls it 'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world'.©2017 Ann Leckie (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group Science Fiction Fiction Solar System Interstellar
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This is an interesting and entertaining story by Ann Leckie, with good characters and an intriguing plot - but what makes it special is the superb reading by Adjoa Andoh, who does a superb job. A great, great listen.

Excellent performance.

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Great story but terrible recording / production. The plosives throughout the whole tale really pack a punch. It's incredibly annoying and painful in parts.

Great story

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Ingray is not Breq, not even close. She is an anxious teenager way in over her head, but with plenty of character growth to compensate.

Leckie frankly writes the best aliens I have seen in science fiction, and it remains true. Plenty of interesting cultures and transhumanistic aspects.

There are at least three separate conspiracies crashing into one another, and it is wonderful. And speaking of threes, the book has an adorable non-trinary character.

Please, Leckie, write more within the setting, it is amazing and I wish to have more of it.

An excellent spin-off

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I mean it as high praise to say that this book mixes elements of two of my favourite authors: John le Carre and Iain Banks. Intrigue with a background of far-future human and alien factions and a sympathetic protagonist mean it’s approachable but with a good deal of depth. On top of that, I think Adjoa Andoh’s performance is one of the best I’ve ever heard. She clearly delineates the voices and gives life to their emotions seemingly effortlessly. In particular it seems she’s reading a long way ahead so that nuances are described in the text quite a way after she’s started voicing them. Very impressive.

Like Le Carre in Space

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The plot revolves around a series of characters, most of whom manage to hide their identity and add to the intrigue in a number of different ways. Political power and riches on this planet are connected to official vestiges, and crimes of forgery or larceny of them abound, and it's hard to discern the truth from the lie. The main character is herself quite interesting and resourceful, and manages to discover quite a few schemes and to reveal unsuspected connections, as well as solve the murder of an important representative, and save quite a few lives, exploiting the deceptive identities of some of her new allies. Quite full of fascinating characters and surprising plot twists. In the background, to remind us that this is set in the same universe as the Ancillary trilogy, the frightening request of the weird AIs to be considered citizens is looming on the upcoming council meetings,far away from this planet.

Mysterious identities and a murder mystery

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