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By A. Whitehead
Breq, once a superintelligent AI controlling a vast starship, is now a reluctant agent of Anaander Mianaai, the ruler of the Radch. Mianaai inhabits thousands of different bodies scattered across human space, but is now suffering from disassociation: two distinct factions have arisen in her multiplicity and are now waging war on one another. Aligned with one faction against the other, Breq is ordered to the remote planet Athoek and take steps to secure it against the opposition.Ancillary Justice was released in 2013 and won the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards the following year. A fine space opera novel which contained thematic musings on identity, consciousness and pre-existing biases, it was a striking debut, if one that was slightly overrated.Being a success, of course the novel turned out to be the start of a trilogy. This is where things start to go wrong for Ancillary Sword. The Imperial Radch trilogy is what can be called a "fake trilogy", where Part 1 is self-contained (to some extent) to avoid too many unresolved plotlines if sales tank, whilst the remaining two parts form a much more closely-linked duology. The original Star Wars trilogy is a good example of that, and it's a reasonably common set-up in science fiction and fantasy which can work quite well (and arguably is better than "proper" trilogies with a single big story, where often the middle book feels surplus to requirements). However, it doesn't really work with Ancillary Sword.This is a book which has very bizarre pacing. The entire novel, which is only 340 pages long in paperback, is laid back, chilled out, almost languorous. Breq travels on her starship to Athoek and meets lots of people and is nice to them, whilst carrying out observations of them from her unique perspective (a starship AI living in a single human body). The other characters are a mixture of interesting and bland, but the novel stubbornly refuses to engage in anything really approaching a plot or giving them anything interesting to do. A representative of an overwhelmingly powerful alien race is murdered, but this has no consequence (in this novel anyway). There's a lot of politicking and capital-building, both by Breq and her subordinates, and some of this is addressed in the novel but a lot of it isn't. At one point we learn of a mysterious "ghost gate" leading to an unknown star system where Breq suspects something is going on. She resolutely fails to follow up on this lead.Ancillary Sword, it soon turns out, is almost nothing but set-up and pipe-laying for Ancillary Mercy, the third and concluding volume in the series. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is an issue when the book denudes itself of its own identity and storyline to benefit the later book in the series.What the book does do quite well is character development, with Leckie also cleverly inverting the usual cliches of "AI wanting to be human" stories by having an AI become human and resolutely dislike the experience. By the end of the book Breq knows where she stands with regards to the government of Athoek and the administrators of the space station above it. The novel also makes some nods in the direction of themes such as colonialism, but treats the subject simplistically and superficially: no-one on Athoek but Breq has ever had the idea of treating the labourers fairly or even just enforcing the law on treating subject races well, apparently.This is a slow-burning, SF-lite novel which feels like it is trying very hard to be a Lois McMaster Bujold book (who does this kind of comedy-of-manners, character-rooted story which holds back on violence and explosions with considerably less hype) but is undercut by also lacking the story and thematic elements that Bujold would include in her work effortlessly. If Ancillary Sword is anything, it's certainly not effortless: this is a turgidly-paced novel that took me five weeks to get through despite its modest length.Still, Ancillary Mercy (**½) is a desperately slow and badly-paced novel rescued by some effective characterisation and ends with some plot developments that leave things in an intriguing place for Ancillary Mercy to resolve. How well it does so remains to be seen.
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By P. G. Harris
Ancilliary Sword takes up immediately where the previous novel Ancillary Justice left off. One Esk Nineteen/Breq, once the AI controlling a spaceship, now incorporated in a human body is sent out into a universal civil war by one faction of the multiple bodies and personalities of the supreme ruler of the Galaxy, Anaander Mianaai. That last sentence, I hope, makes one thing absolutely clear. This is not the place to start. If you haven't read the first book you stand absolutely no chance of making any sense of the setup here.Having said that, once the opening is out of the way, this is a strangely self contained book. Ancilliary Justice seemed to set the stall out for a conflict on the widest possible scale, including hints of alien intervention, but this is an almost claustrophobic tale, set on a single space station and on a small area of the planet below. While there are constant references to the alien Presger and to Mianaai's galaxy spanning war with herself, this is primarily a low key mystery story, with Breq taking on the role of a sort of interstellar Jack Reacher.Leaving the clutches of Mianaai, Breq and her new ship the Mercy of Kalr jump to the Athoek system, where they are met by the strangely hostile ship the Sword of Atagaris. The initial standoff apparently defused, Breq and her crew enter a world of seemingly civilised but deadly politics, of sexual tension and predation and of ambitious and Machiavellian merchants. As she both becomes embroiled in the labyrinth, and seeks to remain separate from it, Breq discovers that the numbers in the tradesmen's accounts don't add up and that the mysterious Ghost Gate hides more than ancient superstitions.Ancilliary Justice drew partially on the Roman Empire as a template for a future society. Those elements are still very much present here, but there is so much tea being drunk, Athoek being a tea-growing world, that I began to suspect the British Empire might be in the background. From there it was just a short step to imagine, in an American author's work, that a group of locals may turn up, dressed as the alien Presger, and throw some tea chests into deep space. Sadly that didn't happen.I read Ancilliary Justice as being primarily about the nature of humanity and what it means to be fully human. If Ancilliary Sword is about anything it is about slavery and about the abuse of power in interpersonal relationships. That said, I found it to be a somewhat less interesting work than its predecessor. Whereas before, Breq's multiple viewpoints as a ship and its avatars were an intriguing and novel feature, here she is just a ship's captain with telepathic powers. In turn that makes this tale much more of a meat and potatoes work of military SF, yet another Napoleonic navy in space story.It is also disappointing that while there are some interesting new characters here, the survivors from the first novel seem much flatter, foremost amongst them Seveirden who goes from damaged survivor to peripheral and run of the mill ship's officer.All in all four stars is a bit on the generous side, I would view this as, at best, a three and a half star book, but am prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt if it turns out to occupy a transitional position in a sequence, providing the setup for more interesting works to follow.
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By Nish Pfister
I'm so glad, I've found a new favourite writer. She takes me in this world she created and I'm engaged with it, care for the characters and the developments. The main character being part AI and part human, this is well covered in its complexity. Interesting, that the humanity of the personal relationships is brought out clearer by this. The society, aristocratic militaristic, with exacting standards and customs, very well worked out. The overall political situation, with two factions fighting for dominance, providing tensions and conflict. Can't wait for the next instalment.
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