![]() ![]() Leckie reveled in those specifics, from the class issues surrounding the ritual wearing of gloves to the tiny social markers of Radchaai diplomacy. But it was much more concerned with the ways colonialism consumes everything from bodies to cultures, and how the many aesthetic trappings of the books' Radchaai Empire can't hide that the fact that the Empire is itself an act of violence. The original trilogy - about a former AI corpse-soldier who finds herself an accidental catalyst of a series of interplanetary breaking points - spanned a galaxy of planets and a few millennia of history. Somehow, it's not a surprise that Ann Leckie's Ancillary series has made room for a cozy mystery. ![]() Genevieve Valentine's latest novel is Icon. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Provenance Author Ann Leckie ![]()
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