#radch — Public Fediverse posts

I finished the new #murderbot story last night, just in time to get a few pages into the new Ann Leckie #Radch book. And this was after finishing the new Children of Time novel.

I'm not used to reading current #scifi and having all these new books come out almost at the same time!

Listening to Terry Pratchett's "Equal Rites" audiobook for the first time (have read most all of the Discworld books and now re-experiencing in audio form).

Only... the lead character Eskarina is referred to as Esk, and every time it hears it my brain tries to map it to One Esk Nineteen, which is a... very different character on so many levels from a very different universe.

Though... I think Breq would like Granny Weatherwax, particularly her definition of sin.

#discworld #radch

@Wayne_Murillo The #Radch trilogy is one if my favorite SciFi book series! Fun fact: There us a hint to #SacredHarp singing hidden in the story, and I know a couple of #shapenote singers who found out about if this way.
I also highly recommend #AnnLeckie’s #TheRavenTower. Different pace, different setting, but similar poetic approach, and the #gender topic also plays a role. Amazing book, it also reminded me a lot of #KazuoIshiguro’s #TheBuriedGiant.

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

And since I'm crossposting Tumblr stuff here, have a post about a #headcanon for a shared architecture of the Imperial #Radch spaceship fleet and space station construction, as depicted in Ann Leckie's Ancillary trilogy:
https://irradiate-space.tumblr.com/post/636442851763486720/headcanon-about-spaceship-and-space-station #worldbuilding