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Come for the spaceship protagonist, stay for the emooootions.

December 31, 2014 by narfna Leave a Comment

Breq is smart. Breq is capable and knowledgable. Breq is thoughtful, empathetic. Breq yearns for social justice. Breq mourns for lost love. Breq loves to sing, but has a bit of a temper. Breq used to be a spaceship. Well, if we’re going to get technical, Breq was the artificial intelligence who inhabited the spaceship Justice of Toren, and also thousands of ancillary human bodies (whose previous inhabitants had, um, vacated the premises). Now she only inhabits one, and almost everyone she has ever known […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: ancillary sword, ann leckie, imperial radch, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera

narfna's CBR6 Review No:97 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: ancillary sword, ann leckie, imperial radch, narfna, sci-fi, science fiction, space opera ·
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