Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice

A Critical Companion

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David M. Higgins: Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice (2022, Springer International Publishing AG)

English language

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

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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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Not too bad, but definitely didn’t live up to the hype of having won 3 prestigious sci-fi awards (though given some of the other winners, I’m not sure I’d put a huge emphasis on them indicating anything). Like Murderbot, I didn’t really like the main character - an AI / computer / bot doesn’t really work for me (I don’t emphasise with it in the way that some of the more gushing reviewers seem to). I’m unlikely to pick up the next book in the series unless it’s a book club choice.

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