However, I was disappointed because all that praise made me think was going to be one of the most amazing science fiction books ever written, and that my life would be fundamentally different after reading it. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy. Clever, fun, inventive, occasionally shocking, and overall a great read with fascinating characters. Newspapers nationwide heaped praise on it.Īnd you know what? It’s a really good book. In an act of treachery, the Justice of Toren is destroyed, and the AI-now going by the name of Breq-is a single human body filled with unanswered questions and a burning desire for vengeance.Īncillary Justice is the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. These AI-run soldiers are known as ancillaries. That intelligence also linked thousands of human soldiers, each soldier’s mind completely run by the AI. The Justice of Toren was a colossal starship run by an artificial intelligence.

“Space opera the way it ought to be… interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains, as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid-the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others-to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own. The dreaded empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order… and bloody chaos.Ī young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny.

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