“Well,” he croaked, then spluttered and spat, “you lot certainly took your time.”
By Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice
Ancillary Sword
Praise for the NEBULA, ARTHUR C. CLARKE, LOCUS, and BSFA award–winning; and HUGO, and PHILIP K. DICK award–nominated Ancillary Justice
“Unexpected, compelling and very cool. Ann Leckie nails it.”
—John Scalzi
“Establishes Leckie as an heir to Banks and Cherryh.”
—Elizabeth Bear
“Powerful, arresting, beautiful space opera… Leckie makes it look so easy.”
—Kameron Hurley
Ancillary Justice is the mind-blowing space opera you’ve been needing… This is a novel that will thrill you like the page-turner it is, but stick with you for a long time afterward.”
—io9.com
“This impressive debut succeeds in making Breq a protagonist readers will invest in, and establishes Leckie as a talent to watch.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice does everything science fiction should do. It engages, it excites, and it challenges the way the reader views our world.”
—Staffer’s Book Review
“Assured, gripping, and stylish… an absorbing thousand-year history, a poignant personal journey, and a welcome addition to the genre.”
—NPR Books
“A stunning, fast-paced debut.”
—Shelf Awareness
“It’s not every day a debut novel by an author you’d never heard of before derails your entire afternoon with its brilliance. But when my review copy of Ancillary Justice arrived, that’s exactly what it did. In fact, it arrowed upward to reach a pretty high position on my list of best space opera novels ever.”
—Liz Bourke, Tor.com
“This is not entry-level SF, and its payoff is correspondingly greater because of that.”
—Locus
“I cannot find fault in this truly amazing, awe-inspiring debut novel from Ann Leckie… Ancillary Justice is one of the best science fiction novels I’ve ever read.”
—The Book Smugglers
“It’s by turns thrilling, moving and awe-inspiring.”
—The Guardian (UK)
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Acknowledgments
Extras
Meet the Author
A Preview of LEVIATHAN WAKES
A Preview of CONSIDER PHLEBAS
By Ann Leckie
Praise for the NEBULA, ARTHUR C. CLARKE, LOCUS, and BSFA award–winning; and HUGO, and PHILIP K. DICK award–nominated Ancillary Justice
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Copyright
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2014 by Ann Leckie
Excerpt from Leviathan Wakes copyright © 2011 by James S. A. Corey
Excerpt from Consider Phlebas copyright © 1987 by Iain M. Banks
Cover design by Kirk Benshoff
Illustration by John Harris
Cover copyright © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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