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« Translation State », d’Ann Leckie

Rechercher une personne disparue depuis deux siècles n’a rien d’évident. C’est pourtant la mission qui échoit à Eane Axthur, dans Translation State, d’Ann Leckie.

#AnnLeckie #extraTerrestres #PlanèteSF #scienceFiction #transhumanisme

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

:boostRequest:

#bookstodon #GreggHurwitz #AnnLeckie #MichaelConnelly #ElizabethBear

Oh so we’re all Radchaai now

#SciFi #AncillaryJustice #Trump #USPol #ImperialRadch #AnnLeckie #ExecutiveOrder

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

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

#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 :)

https://www.literatopia.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28735:translation-state-ann-leckie&catid=64&Itemid=131

#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

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.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/28eb662d-3175-4f64-bbf6-82868a17a2a9

#AnnLeckie #ImperialRadch #Provenance

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! https://octothorpe.podbean.com/e/111-slightly-lower-tolerance-for-feelings/

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

I'm always reading a handful of books concurrently. Right now I'm in the middle of books by #AnnLeckie, #TanyaHuff and #RosemarySutcliff. What a group of story tellers, pacing, ideas, pithiness, authority, subtlety, page-turning!

My hold on Ann Leckie's Translation State audiobook came in from the library this morning. I've really been looking forward to this one.

#AnnLeckie #ImperialRadch #audiobooks #bookstodon #library

I’d preordered this and got it the day it was published, but I put off starting it as I was sure it would be good and I wouldn’t get anything else done. I was right. Haven’t been able to put it down. I can even listen to it just sitting down with no urge to pick up any printed text (if you’ve heard me talk about audiobooks before you know how incredible that is to me).
#TranslationState #AnnLeckie @ann_leckie

I started #AncillaryJustice by #AnnLeckie because it was on a list of books that were said to be similar to #StarWars: #Andor. The resemblance is interesting.

In a space fairing collection of civilizations, the #Radch rules as an empire over others. Power is gained by the "illbred" by #colonizing land not already controlled by the Radch, a tale at least as old as the #RomanEmpire.

At some point, the technology to create Ancillaries. An #ancillary is a human that is under AI control. In this future, slave drivers directly control slaves without freewill creating conflict: an absolutely unrelatable concept that does not strike fear into my heart/s.

The protagonist, #Breq, was once an #AI that controlled a ship and many ancillaries. Something caused the destruction of her ship and the deaths of all of her ancillaries but the one they inhabit now. Breq is on a quest to kill the person who destroyed her ship, the Lord of the Radch, which doesn't sound at all like Lord of the Reich/s.

It is a fun space opera. For me, the shear revolutionary joy of Andor that it might have is blurred by the strangeness of the #Radchaai culture, which I did enjoy.

I am reading the #AncillarySword now. The #spaceopera is an excellent #diversion.

#Scifi #BookToot #Bookstodon #BookReview #Book #Audiobook #Colonization #Revolution #LanguageModel #Gender

I started #AncillaryJustice by #AnnLeckie because it was on a list of books that were said to be similar to #StarWars: #Andor. The resemblance is interesting.

In a space fairing collection of civilizations, the #Radch rules as an empire over others. Power is gained by the "illbred" by #colonizing land not already controlled by the Radch, a tale at least as old as the #RomanEmpire.

At some point, the technology to create Ancillaries. An #ancillary is a human that is under AI control. In this future, slave drivers directly control slaves without freewill creating conflict: an absolutely unrelatable concept that does not strike fear into my heart/s.

The protagonist, #Breq, was once an #AI that controlled a ship and many ancillaries. Something caused the destruction of her ship and the deaths of all of her ancillaries but the one they inhabit now. Breq is on a quest to kill the person who destroyed her ship, the Lord of the Radch, which doesn't sound at all like Lord of the Reich/s.

It is a fun space opera. For me, the shear revolutionary joy of Andor that it might have is blurred by the strangeness of the #Radchaai culture, which I did enjoy.

I am reading the #AncillarySword now. The #spaceopera is an excellent #diversion.

#Scifi #BookToot #Bookstodon #BookReview #Book #Audiobook #Colonization #Revolution #LanguageModel #Gender

I started #AncillaryJustice by #AnnLeckie because it was on a list of books that were said to be similar to #StarWars: #Andor. The resemblance is interesting.

In a space fairing collection of civilizations, the #Radch rules as an empire over others. Power is gained by the "illbred" by #colonizing land not already controlled by the Radch, a tale at least as old as the #RomanEmpire.

At some point, the technology to create Ancillaries. An #ancillary is a human that is under AI control. In this future, slave drivers directly control slaves without freewill creating conflict: an absolutely unrelatable concept that does not strike fear into my heart/s.

The protagonist, #Breq, was once an #AI that controlled a ship and many ancillaries. Something caused the destruction of her ship and the deaths of all of her ancillaries but the one they inhabit now. Breq is on a quest to kill the person who destroyed her ship, the Lord of the Radch, which doesn't sound at all like Lord of the Reich/s.

It is a fun space opera. For me, the shear revolutionary joy of Andor that it might have is blurred by the strangeness of the #Radchaai culture, which I did enjoy.

I am reading the #AncillarySword now. The #spaceopera is an excellent #diversion.

#Scifi #BookToot #Bookstodon #BookReview #Book #Audiobook #Colonization #Revolution #LanguageModel #Gender

@Natoo

#LarryNiven #Ringworld
#KeithLaumer #DinochromeBrigade
#BarryHughart #StoryOfTheStone
#ElizabethBear #Machine
#AnnLeckie #AncillaryJustice
#JeffVanderMeer #annihilation
#ConnieWillis #Doomsdaybook
#iainmbanks #CultureSeries
#AlanLightman #Einstein'sDreams
#WilliamGibson #Neuromancer
#GeneWolf #BookOfTheNewSun
#MervynPeake #Gormanghast

and many more...

@Natoo

#LarryNiven #Ringworld
#KeithLaumer #DinochromeBrigade
#BarryHughart #StoryOfTheStone
#ElizabethBear #Machine
#AnnLeckie #AncillaryJustice
#JeffVanderMeer #annihilation
#ConnieWillis #Doomsdaybook
#iainmbanks #CultureSeries
#AlanLightman #Einstein'sDreams
#WilliamGibson #Neuromancer
#GeneWolf #BookOfTheNewSun
#MervynPeake #Gormanghast

and many more...

@Natoo

#LarryNiven #Ringworld
#KeithLaumer #DinochromeBrigade
#BarryHughart #StoryOfTheStone
#ElizabethBear #Machine
#AnnLeckie #AncillaryJustice
#JeffVanderMeer #annihilation
#ConnieWillis #Doomsdaybook
#iainmbanks #CultureSeries
#AlanLightman #Einstein'sDreams
#WilliamGibson #Neuromancer
#GeneWolf #BookOfTheNewSun
#MervynPeake #Gormanghast

and many more...

"Four hours before dawn, things went to pieces. Or, more accurately, I went to pieces."

#AncillaryJustice #AnnLeckie #Books #Quotes

Just finished Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy. Hugely enjoyable. Science fiction’s ability to present different possibilities is so welcome & her AIs are very much more nuanced than present debate would allow.

It is one of the reasons I love Iain M Banks’ Culture world - the AIs were the quirky stars of his novels!

PS please don’t @ me with a flood of techie detail!

#ScienceFiction #SciFi #Bookstodon #AnnLeckie #IainMBanks #TheCulture #AncillaryJustice #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

I finished #reading #AncillaryJustice by #AnnLeckie today. This was a phenomenal book with great characters. It ended in a place that was very surprising to me, so I’m eager to see where it goes from there. The other books are on my wish list. I want to thank @dragonqueen for the recommendation.

I'm almost half way through #AncillaryJustice by #AnnLeckie now. I've been enjoying it so far. The time split and perspective split are interesting, giving a sense of different POVs even though I'm pretty certain they are not.

This is also the first #audiobook I've listened to with #LibroFM. So far the app has worked pretty much the way one would expect. Easy to get back to the audio. I do wish it would auto play when connected to Bluetooth, and it doesn't seem to honor BT media controls.

@bookstodon seven of my favourite current SFF authors...impossible but here goes:

#MarthaWells (Raksura!)
#OctaviaButler (esp Dawn)
#AnnLeckie (Provenance is underrated)
#NKJemisin
#ChinaMieville
#RebeccaRoanhorse
#VondaNMcIntyre (R.I.P.)

(and sneaking in one more author as they've just had the one book so far #ShelleyParkerChan)

@bookstodon seven of my favourite current SFF authors...impossible but here goes:

#MarthaWells (Raksura!)
#OctaviaButler (esp Dawn)
#AnnLeckie (Provenance is underrated)
#NKJemisin
#ChinaMieville
#RebeccaRoanhorse
#VondaNMcIntyre (R.I.P.)

(and sneaking in one more author as they've just had the one book so far #ShelleyParkerChan)

@bookstodon seven of my favourite current SFF authors...impossible but here goes:

#MarthaWells (Raksura!)
#OctaviaButler (esp Dawn)
#AnnLeckie (Provenance is underrated)
#NKJemisin
#ChinaMieville
#RebeccaRoanhorse
#VondaNMcIntyre (R.I.P.)

(and sneaking in one more author as they've just had the one book so far #ShelleyParkerChan)

@bookstodon seven of my favourite current SFF authors...impossible but here goes:

#MarthaWells (Raksura!)
#OctaviaButler (esp Dawn)
#AnnLeckie (Provenance is underrated)
#NKJemisin
#ChinaMieville
#RebeccaRoanhorse
#VondaNMcIntyre (R.I.P.)

(and sneaking in one more author as they've just had the one book so far #ShelleyParkerChan)

@womanontherun I liked The City We Became, read it last year, though there were some things I thought could be improved so I'm really curious about The World We Make.

As for the current favourite #SciFi author, I'll say #AnnLeckie. I really enjoyed #AncillaryJustice.

A few of my favourite things (Book edition):
#AnnLeckie
#TheDarkIsRising
#DouglasAdams
#LawrenceMiles
#LockedTomb and #TamsynMuir
#LordOfTheRings
#MurderBot
#NKJemisin (esp. #BrokenEarth)
#OctoberDaye and #SeananMcGuire / #MiraGrant
#RobinHobb (currently on Rain Wild Chronicles)
#Sandman and #NeilGaiman
#ASongOfIceAndFire
#TerryPratchett
#UrsulaVernon / #TKingfisher (esp. #Digger)
#WatershipDown
#YoonHaLee

A few of my favourite things (Book edition):
#AnnLeckie
#TheDarkIsRising
#DouglasAdams
#LawrenceMiles
#LockedTomb and #TamsynMuir
#LordOfTheRings
#MurderBot
#NKJemisin (esp. #BrokenEarth)
#OctoberDaye and #SeananMcGuire / #MiraGrant
#RobinHobb (currently on Rain Wild Chronicles)
#Sandman and #NeilGaiman
#ASongOfIceAndFire
#TerryPratchett
#UrsulaVernon / #TKingfisher (esp. #Digger)
#WatershipDown
#YoonHaLee

A few of my favourite things (Book edition):
#AnnLeckie
#TheDarkIsRising
#DouglasAdams
#LawrenceMiles
#LockedTomb and #TamsynMuir
#LordOfTheRings
#MurderBot
#NKJemisin (esp. #BrokenEarth)
#OctoberDaye and #SeananMcGuire / #MiraGrant
#RobinHobb (currently on Rain Wild Chronicles)
#Sandman and #NeilGaiman
#ASongOfIceAndFire
#TerryPratchett
#UrsulaVernon / #TKingfisher (esp. #Digger)
#WatershipDown
#YoonHaLee

A few of my favourite things (Book edition):
#AnnLeckie
#TheDarkIsRising
#DouglasAdams
#LawrenceMiles
#LockedTomb and #TamsynMuir
#LordOfTheRings
#MurderBot
#NKJemisin (esp. #BrokenEarth)
#OctoberDaye and #SeananMcGuire / #MiraGrant
#RobinHobb (currently on Rain Wild Chronicles)
#Sandman and #NeilGaiman
#ASongOfIceAndFire
#TerryPratchett
#UrsulaVernon / #TKingfisher (esp. #Digger)
#WatershipDown
#YoonHaLee

A few of my favourite things (Book edition):
#AnnLeckie
#TheDarkIsRising
#DouglasAdams
#LawrenceMiles
#LockedTomb and #TamsynMuir
#LordOfTheRings
#MurderBot
#NKJemisin (esp. #BrokenEarth)
#OctoberDaye and #SeananMcGuire / #MiraGrant
#RobinHobb (currently on Rain Wild Chronicles)
#Sandman and #NeilGaiman
#ASongOfIceAndFire
#TerryPratchett
#UrsulaVernon / #TKingfisher (esp. #Digger)
#WatershipDown
#YoonHaLee

Other folks have been posting this, so, for #bookstodon folks...

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#KJCharles
#AnnLeckie
#NKJemisin
#MarieBrennan
#SarahGailey
#YoonHaLee
#DorothyLSayers

(I have a lot of favourites and want to keep going, but that is not the rules...)

Other folks have been posting this, so, for #bookstodon folks...

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#KJCharles
#AnnLeckie
#NKJemisin
#MarieBrennan
#SarahGailey
#YoonHaLee
#DorothyLSayers

(I have a lot of favourites and want to keep going, but that is not the rules...)

Other folks have been posting this, so, for #bookstodon folks...

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#KJCharles
#AnnLeckie
#NKJemisin
#MarieBrennan
#SarahGailey
#YoonHaLee
#DorothyLSayers

(I have a lot of favourites and want to keep going, but that is not the rules...)

Other folks have been posting this, so, for #bookstodon folks...

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#KJCharles
#AnnLeckie
#NKJemisin
#MarieBrennan
#SarahGailey
#YoonHaLee
#DorothyLSayers

(I have a lot of favourites and want to keep going, but that is not the rules...)

Other folks have been posting this, so, for #bookstodon folks...

Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#KJCharles
#AnnLeckie
#NKJemisin
#MarieBrennan
#SarahGailey
#YoonHaLee
#DorothyLSayers

(I have a lot of favourites and want to keep going, but that is not the rules...)

My pretend comic book page for ancillary justice-
Justice of Toren One Esk listens to two orsian children sing. #imperialradch #annleckie #JusticeofToren #awn #scifi #ancillaryjustice #transartist #mastoart #mastoartist

@Elizabeth_Fitz

Howdy! Since you asked…

I just finished the #AudioBook for “The Light Brigade” by #KameronHurley. It was a wild ride; Time travel #SciFi makes me dizzy sometimes.

Before that it was “The Raven Tower” by #AnnLeckie, a #Fantasy #novel featuring a #Trans hero, where the author further explores some of the ideas from her “Ancillary Justice” trilogy —and a lot more.

I’m thinking about buying “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by #MarlonJames next payday, just because it sounds pretty cool.

I've been reading #AncillaryJustice by #AnnLeckie, and the first half of the book was a hike, but I'm really starting to get into it as the social and political intrigue is ramping up.