![]() ![]() If that seems hard to wrap your head around, well, that’s rather the point: At the heart of Leckie’s series is a profound grappling with the way identity-our very sense of self-is imagined, is regulated, and shifts over time. ![]() Breq is One Esk Nineteen, a single segment of Justice of Toren, but she also is the A.I. Every now and then, for one reason or another, a book sometimes gets lost in the shuffle and ends up back. Ancillary Mercy Breq and her crew must stand against an old and powerful enemy and fight for their own destinies in the stunning conclusion to the New. Adjoa Andoh is simply outstanding as the narrator. Ann Leckie wraps up her Ancillary series with a tense, complex and immersive take. (The three novels in the trilogy are named after the three classes of ships: Justice, Sword, and Mercy.) The protagonist of the series calls herself Breq she was once an ancillary and is the sole survivor of the destruction of the Radchaai ship Justice of Toren. Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch 3). Ancillary Mercy By: Ann Leckie Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins 4.5 out of 5. The enormous spaceships Radchaai use to annex and regulate planets are installed with artificial intelligences these A.I.s control “ancillaries,” people from conquered planets who are implanted with technology that wipes out their identities and renders them human appendages of their ships. ![]() In the far-future space of Leckie’s trilogy, the Radchaai Empire has controlled a vast portion of the galaxy for thousands of years through the annexation of human-occupied planets. ![]()
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