“Once I had twenty bodies, twenty pairs of eyes […] Once, my orders were to kill thousands; now I have to kill one.”
On a remote, icy planet, a wandering woman is more than she seems and less than she was. Twenty years ago it was the “Justice of Toren”: a colossal warship of the war fleet of the intergalactic empire of the Radch, with a complex artificial intelligence installed in dozens of dead bodies of the conquered.
After a dark act of betrayal, “Justice” is completely destroyed; all that remains is a fragile human body with unanswered questions and a burning desire for revenge. An unexpected encounter from the past will mark the beginning of the end of the quest…
Ancillary Justice is the award-winning first part of the Imperial Radch space opera trilogy. It was loved by audiences and critics alike and compared to works by Ursula Le Guin, Iain M. Banks and C.J. Cherryh. It is the only book to have won three of the most prestigious awards in science fiction: the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards for best novel.
