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Unbroken Fire by Anne Wheeler [Book Review]
Unbroken Fire by Anne Wheeler My rating: 5 of 5 stars Unbroken Fire is the sequel to the awesome Asrian Skies by Anne Wheeler. You really need to read Asrian Skies before embarking on Unbroken Fire. It's not that Unbroken Fire won't be a great read, but that Asrian Skies is too, and it's way better if you read them in the correct order! In my review of Asrian Skies I compared Anne Wheeler to Ann Leckie and Elizabeth Bear. This sequel is even better than the first one, and I stand by that comparison. Anne Wheeler is a really talented author, and she crafts amazing multi-dimensional stories with multiple twists. Following on from the events of Asrian Skies, Unbroken Fire follows Avery Rendon in her quest to free her home planet of Asria from the invading Haedarans. The title's…
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Vote for Ancillary Justice in the Goodreads Best Reads of 2013
Amongst others I posted on twitter and Google+ for people to write in Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie in the Science Fiction category of the Goodreads Best of 2013 awards. That worked because enough people thought the same way I did about it. Here's what Ann Leckie said Anyway you need to go instantly and vote for Ancillary Justice the new round over at Goodreads. Just to remind you why this is the right thing to do. Here's my review of Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Related articles Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice The Big Idea: Ann Leckie Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie RT Reviewers Choice Award Nomination + Goodreads Semifinals Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
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Book Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie My rating: 5 of 5 stars A refreshing take on space opera, and a fascinating main character (a self-aware spaceship AI that inhabits multiple bodies simultaneously). We are introduced to the main character, who is a spaceship AI in multiple bodies, through the events of an annexation of a world. We see things from multiple points of view which all represent the same character. Through this story, told as flashbacks from another sequence, we find out about how the Radch works, and the values that empire has. The scenes are well written and avoid grand expositions, instead there is a gradual burn towards the climax. One of the interesting features, which I liked, was that in the Radch language there is no gender pronoun, everyone is 'her/she'. This is used to indicate when the speech…