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  1. Having a very lazy morning back in the Ancillary series. So very excellent. #scifi #annleckie #bookstodon

  2. Today's train travelling companions: Ann Leckie's Raven Tower & Winged Victory for the Sullen on my headphones.

    Second time we've read Ann for the SF book group, first time for her fantasy work though.

    #AmReading #books #livres #fantasy #bookstodon #AnnLeckie #RavenTower

  3. What should be my next book after I finish my current one (Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch)? 📚

    :boostRequest:

  4. #FinishedReading the short stories of #AnnLeckie . The book is split into planetary #SciFi from her Imperial Radch universe, #fantasy fables in the world of Raven Tower, and miscellaneous stories. The connections to her novels are weak enough that you could read them without worrying about spoilers or missing context. If you want a hilarious, albeit not exactly representative, sample, 'The Sad History of the Tearless Onion' is only a page long and available on her website: annleckie.com/onion.html. The quality level is maybe not quite as superlative as her incredible novels but I'd still read anything Ann Leckie writes. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

  5. #FinishedReading #AnnLeckie 's sole novel outside her sci fi universe, a #fantasy told from the perspective of a god, moving between their own millennia-spanning story and their observations of a struggle for power among humans in the (roughly) Bronze age present day. Maybe not her absolute best work - I found it a bit exposition heavy - but given her best work stands among my favourite reads ever, that's OK! Incredibly creative world building and a highly entertaining story. #Bookstodon @bookstodon

  6. Mulla on nyt ollut kohta puolentoista kuukauden ajan kesken tää Leckien erinomainen novellikokoelma. Oon usein näiden kanssa vähän hidas, koska jumitun johonkin yli 30 sivua pitkään novelliin, kun odotan sopivaa aloitushetkeä. (Kanish Tharoorin "Swimmer Among the Stars" -kokoelma on ollut mulla kesken kohta viisi vuotta.)

    Nyt olen lukenut tästä ensimmäiset neljä. Ekassa oli riemastuttavaa avaruusantropologiaa, toka oli creepy kahden sivun kauhunovelli, kolmas hauskaa leikittelyä Edgar Rice Burroughsin Mars-sarjalla ja neljäs niin ikään riemastuttava tarina siitä, mitä olisi tapahtunut, jos velociraptorit(?) olisivatkin olleet niin älykkäitä, että olisivat lähteneet avaruusmatkalle kohti Marsia juuri ennen valtavan meteoriitin iskeytymistä Maahan.

    Metkaa kamaa. Päivittelen tänne myös lopuista paloissa sitä mukaa kun etenen, mutta tää on ollut jo nyt viehättävä kokoelma.

    #KirjaMastodon #kirjat #AnnLeckie

  7. Book Review – Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

    My first book of 2025 is the second book I’ve read by author Ann Leckie. Both books, Translation State and Ancillary Justice, are set in the same world of the Imperial Radch series, though the stories are not directly connected. Reading Translation State led me to Ancillary Justice, the first book of Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, and I am eagerly looking forward to book two.

    Ancillary Justice introduces us to Breq, a soldier, at least that’s how they present themselves. In reality, Breq is the last surviving ancillary of Justice of Toren, a destroyed warship of the Radch, and is on a mission of vengeance, one which will immensely change the empire, either in success or failure.

    Characters like Breq, the last fragment of an artificial intelligence over 2000 years old now contained in a human body, and  Seivarden, a former Lieutenant on the Justice of Toren a thousand years ago. Both are fish out of water, Breq as an AI trying to pass as human and Seivardan, a human a thousand years out of time who has lost everything. These two do need each other, though, of course, neither knows or believes it for some time, and their shared journey throughout the book, along with Breq’s back story, is compelling on its own.

    Ancillary Justice has the distinct honor of earning  the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the only book to do so. I can see why and I think you will, as well. I completed the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky and I look forward to reading the rest of this one.

    #2025Intentions #AdrianTchaikovsky #AncillaryJustice #AnnLeckie #ArthurCClarkeAward #BookReview #ChildrenOfTimeSeries #HugoAward #ImperialRadchSeries #NebulaAward #ReadAtLeast15MinutesADay #TranslationState

  8. After many recommendations in the last couple of years I've finally started on the Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie. I've barely started but it's an entirely captivating bit of worlds-building with lots of references to things that might be explained later or might not, which I like. But the gender thing is already starting to grate a little bit. If it's not integral to the eventual storyline culmination I'm going to be just a bit miffed.

    #AnnLeckie #SciFi #Books #Bookstodon

  9. Pues mira, @OttaviaAllgood , me he comprado la trilogia de segunda mano! Gracias por el consejo 🖤

    And I bought 'Terraformers' too, dear @annaleen.
    You posted an engaging sample text when it got published last year and I had it on my list since then :heart_cyber:

    #Bookstodon #AnnLeckie #AnnaleeNewitz #TheTerraformers #AncilliaryJustice #ScienceFiction #EarthwormBooks

  10. #TranslationState von #AnnLeckie

    "Ein empfehlenswertes, sehr routiniert erzähltes Buch, das sich mit dem Fremden und der Solidarität zwischen den Wesen in einer fernen Zukunft auseinandersetzt."

    Herzlichen Dank an @tinderness für die ausführliche Rezi :)

    literatopia.de/index.php?optio

  11. I am a #diplomat and have learned a few languages, some of them well and some less well. I have loved #AnnLeckie’s “Another Word for World” since I first read it some years ago and it was a pleasure to re-encounter it in her #LakeOfSouls collection of short fiction. I use #MachineLanguageTranslation tools on a regular basis but am also glad of and sensitive to what I’ve learned by learning languages from people for whom it’s their culture as well. #linguistics #sff #LanguageLearning

  12. #AmReading #TranslationState by #AnnLeckie and just met the Human Ambassador to the Pressger on behalf of the Geck. She’s great.

    I have such a weakness for Poli-SciFi

  13. Been looking to reread this series for months but couldn't find the first book. Another perk to cleaning the garage. Looking forward to taking this journey again.

    #scifi #readinglist #annleckie

  14. Ann Leckie - Translation State

    Three varied main characters. Family, friendships, humans, aliens, adoption, cousins, and a missing person. Complex, inventive science fiction with enjoyable domestic dimensions, in the same universe as the "Imperial Radch" trilogy (the "Ancillary" books).

    #SF #books #family #friendship #adoption #aliens #AnnLeckie

  15. I #AmReading Provenance by Ann Leckie.
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    An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family’s priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of Ann Leckie’s groundbreaking, NYT bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.

    app.thestorygraph.com/books/28

    #AnnLeckie #ImperialRadch #Provenance

  16. John, Alison, and Liz read the Hugo Award finalists for Best Novel. We talk about each of the novels, what we liked and what we didn’t, and then we each say how we’re (currently) planning to rank them on the ballot. Listen here! octothorpe.podbean.com/e/111-s

    #ScienceFiction #Podcast #HugoAwards #Glasgow2024 #GlasgowWorldcon #ShannonChakraborty #VajraChandrasekara #AnnLeckie #JohnScalzi #EmilyTesh #MarthaWells

  17. #SciFi book haul today from a trip down town. The two Adrian Tchaikovsky books complete two trilogies, and seeing the Ann Leckie trilogy (even if the covers don't match) I felt compelled to pick them up as she's an author that's been recommended to me a few times now.

    Thanks to some book tokens and bookshop loyalty reward, these five only cost a tenner. Absolute bargain.

    #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #AdrianTchaikovsky #AnnLeckie #Books

  18. Chirp Books has the first three novels of Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series in audiobook form for $4.99 a piece. These are some of my favorite modern Sci-Fi books, and I strongly recommend them.

    Ancillary Justice: chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/anci
    Ancillary Mercy: chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/anci
    Ancillary Sword: chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/anci

    #SciFi #Audiobooks #AnnLeckie #ChirpBooks