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Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy and winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai - ruler of an empire at war with itself.
Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren't good, but that's never stopped her before.
In the Ancillary world: 1. Ancillary Justice2. Ancillary Sword3. Ancillary Mercy3. Ancillary Mercy
- Sales Rank: #17958 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Released on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Review
"If you don't know the Ancillary series by now, you probably should. Ann Leckie's sociopolitical space opera almost singlehandedly breathed new cool into the stereotype of spaceships trundling through far-off systems amid laser battles. ... [Ancillary Mercy] earns the credit it's received: As a capstone to a series that shook genre expectations, as our closing installment of an immersively realized world, and as the poignant story of a ship that learned to sing."―NPR Books on Ancillary Mercy
"This trilogy will stand as a classic of sf for the ages."―Library Journal on Ancillary Mercy
"Powerful."―The New York Times on Ancillary Sword
"The sort of space opera audiences have been waiting for."―NPR Books on Ancillary Sword
"No science-fiction series as descriptive of our current political and cultural moment or as insistent that we open our eyes to it."―Slate on Ancillary Mercy
"Fans of space operas will feast on its richly textured, gorgeously rendered world-building."―Entertainment Weekly on Ancillary Sword
"A magnificent capstone to this promising trilogy."―RT Book Reviews (4.5 stars) on Ancillary Mercy
"Breq's struggle for meaningful justice in a society designed to favor the strong is as engaging as ever. Readers new to the author will be enthralled, and those familiar with the first book will find that the faith it inspired has not been misplaced."―Publishers Weekly on Ancillary Sword
"Leckie proves she's no mere flash in the pan with this follow-up to her multiple-award-winning debut space opera, Ancillary Justice."―Kirkus on Ancillary Sword
"This follow-up builds on the world and characters that the author introduced in the first book and takes the story in new directions. There is much more to explore in Leckie's universe, one of the most original in SF today."―Library Journal (starred review) on Ancillary Sword
"An ambitious space opera that proves that Justice was no fluke.... a book every serious reader of science fiction should pick up."―RT Book Reviews on Ancillary Sword
"A gripping read, with top-notch world building and a set of rich subtexts about human rights, colonialism -- and (yes) hive mind sex."―io9 on Ancillary Sword
"Leckie investigates what it means to be human, to be an individual and to live in a civilized society."―Scientific American on Ancillary Sword
"Unexpected, compelling and very cool. Ann Leckie nails it...I've never met a heroine like Breq before. I consider this a very good thing indeed."―John Scalzi on Ancillary Justice
"Superb... Sword proves that [Leckie]'s not a one-hit wonder. I look forward to the rest of Breg's tale."―St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Ancillary Sword
"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 (included in 'This Fall's Must-Read Science Fiction and Fantasy Books')
"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
"Establishes Leckie as an heir to Banks and Cherryh."―Elizabeth Bear on Ancillary Justice
"A double-threaded narrative proves seductive, drawing the reader into the naive but determined protagonist's efforts to transform an unjust universe. Leckie uses...an expansionist galaxy-spinning empire [and] a protagonist on a single-minded quest for justice to transcend space-opera conventions in innovative ways. This impressive debut succeeds in making Breq a protagonist readers will invest in, and establishes Leckie as a talent to watch."―Publishers Weekly on Ancillary Justice
"Using the format of SF military adventure blended with hints of space opera, Leckie explores the expanded meaning of human nature and the uneasy balance between individuality and membership in a group identity. Leckie is a newcomer to watch as she expands on the history and future of her new and exciting universe."―Library Journal on Ancillary Justice
"A sharply written space opera with a richly imagined sense of detail and place, this debut novel from Ann Leckie works as both an evocative science fiction tale and an involving character study...it's also a strongly female-driven piece, tackling ideas about politics and gender in a way that's both engaging and provocative...Ancillary Justice is a gripping read that's well worth a look."―SFX (UK) on Ancillary Justice
"It engages, it excites, and it challenges the way the reader views our world. Leckie may be a former Secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but she's the President of this year's crop of debut novelists. Ancillary Justice might be the best science fiction novel of this very young decade."―Justin Landon, Staffer's Book Review on Ancillary Justice
"The sort of book that the Clarke Award wishes it had last year ... be prepared to see Ancillary Justice bandied around a lot come awards season. (As it should be)."―Jared Shurin, Pornokitsch
"Total gamechanger. Get it, read it, wish to hell you'd written it. Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice may well be the most important book Orbit has published in ages."―Paul Graham Raven on Ancillary Justice
About the Author
Ann Leckie has worked as a waitress, a receptionist, a rodman on a land-surveying crew, a lunch lady, and a recording engineer. The author of many published short stories, and former secretary of the Science Fiction Writers of America, she lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, children, and cats.
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57 of 64 people found the following review helpful.
The Quality of MERCY is Pretty Darn High
By Jim Henley
Toward the end of Ancillary Mercy, our heroine Breq, a.k.a. the former warship AI Justice of Toren and the former corpse-soldier AI Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen, remarks, in narration, that "It never hurt to be polite." If we take "polite" to mean "considerate" - not just aping the forms of courtesy but treating others with due regard - the sentence will serve as a keystone to the whole trilogy. There's a lot of the first sort of politeness in Mercy, the conclusion of what Ann Leckie has called her "[C.J.] Cherryh-flavored space opera." Leckie is terrific at writing about political infighting obscured by politesse, and one of the pleasures of the book is how everyone's masks finally slip as this skirmish in the interstellar civil war reaches a crisis point. But consideration is a rarer commodity, and what makes Breq not just a protagonist but a heroine is that she works to spread consideration around. The first book began with Breq interrupting her mission of vengeance to perform an act of decency she could easily have avoided. By this last book, the cumulative sum of all her small acts of decency is to find herself responsible for the inhabitants of two star systems and having to consider giving up the things she cares about most to protect them.
I loved this book. I read it in two nights, and wished I could skip work to finish it faster. It's funny and touching and suspenseful by turns. It's less action-packed than Justice or Sword, even though there is a very original sort of starship battle at one point and a covert assault at another. There's quite a bit of Breq dealing with the officers and crew of her starship. That can get talky, but way less so than in, say, Starship Troopers. There are hilarious set-pieces with the sort-of human translator for the mysterious and terrifying aliens, the Presger, of whom the entire galaxy goes in fear. More than in the previous volumes, Leckie foregrounds the characters of the various AIs. And yes, there is quite a lot of tea. Part of me thought there was actually a bit more tea in the middle of the book than I strictly needed. Another part of me accepts that, like the much-discussed pronoun choices, the weird centrality of tea to the narrative is a crucial part of the worldbuilding. (And there are hints this time that what Breq calls tea and what we call tea may not be quite the same thing. I notice that people perk up awfully fast after drinking it; Earth teas don't have super-high levels of caffeine.)
This is also, for my money, the book where Leckie masters endings. I loved both of Ancillary Mercy's predecessors, but I thought each of them ended a bit clumsily. Mercy's ending isn't by any means what I expected, but it works well as a conclusion to both novel and trilogy, and I didn't find myself wondering "Why did so-and-so even think that plan would work?" like I did with the previous two books. And that earns Mercy its fifth star. This book was everything I hoped for. I recommend it to fans of the previous two books in the series without reservation.
36 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Not my cup of tea
By Beth Pedersen
Honestly, I really preferred the first book the most. It was full of action, and the last two books were full of tea. Some of the reviewers here seem to like the change of pace. Unfortunately, I would not have bought the last two knowing there was going to be a huge change. I'm just not a fan of long, drawn out scenes with little action or suspense. There wasn't even much drama either, aside from Seivarden's lovers quarrel.
It's really hard to describe my disappointment without Spoilers, so...
Spoilers!
While I understood why Seivarden and Breq didn't get together, I was still vehemently hoping for it anyway. I know it seems silly, but I really felt there was no meaningful wrap up of Seivarden's dependence and love. Just some other character to fill the void somewhat.
I felt the issue of turning more humans to ancillaries didn't get fully resolved. It was simply try out more humans for now, possibly clone the ancillaries you have despite difficulties, or thaw out the ones you have in rations. Didn't explore the idea of running out in spite of these measures. Would the ships then start making their own? Possibly new series?
Also I just felt that after everything that happened, it was a bit harsh for Tisiwarat to turn out more like the Raadch ruler, like trying to force ship compliance, in spite of everything that Breq physically did and said to show why that is a problem. I was hoping for more change from that character.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
Oh Tree, Eat the Fish Already.
By Ernest Lilley
I wanted to love Ancillary Mercy, but even though I enjoyed it well enough, it suffers from comparison to the first book in the series, Ancillary Justice. Then again, it's a step up from the middle book, but middle books, like middle children, have a thankless job to do.
Breq, the former ancillary element of the Justice of Toren is now the captain of a warship sent by the Emperor she reviles to keep peace in a star system comfortably far away from the palace. Breq's still of the opinion she's not really a person, having had whoever she (and you'll recall "she" is the gender neutral pronoun for all civilized people in this series) erased completely when her mind was mapped to the ship she crewed, becoming a part of the ship's consciousness, and after its destruction, the last remnant. That doesn't stop her from being self-righteous, which would be a problematic if the author wasn't so firmly on her side.
Breq's not out to cause trouble, just to undo the rampant inequities in the society she's dropped into, and as captain, no Fleet Captain, her word carries a lot of weight. So do her songs.
Did I enjoy Ancillary Mercy. Yes, definitely. I miss the literary device that the first book's ancillary perspectives afforded, as well as the grittier person that Breq was at the beginning. Here she's mellowed and is growing into a more nurturing person, though still happy enough to kill any troops the emperor(s) send her way. The alien gun she's been toting since the first book is a bit of a cheat, and here it's largely used to avoid having to deal with actual space warfare. I'm not crying for the lack of corpusculating shields and beams of colossal energy, but still.
While the first book stood on its own merits, the following two seem more vehicles for societal chiding than good science fiction. Ultimately, Ms Leckie falls victim to both Rousseau's and Ian Bank's visions for our salvation, and as much as I'd like to believe in either, my faith falls short. She's no Le Guin, though Ancillary Justice came close.
So, I'm ambivalent. I've read it twice so far and its a good enough read. It's just not as smart as it thinks it is.
But you know, those songs, or song fragments, do kind of get stuck in your head.
"Oh tree, eat the fish."
(Note: I read this as an ARC, but I've bought the kindle version now that it's out)
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