Series
Imperial Radch
Ann Leckie · 3 novels · 1 novelette · 3 short stories · 2012–2015
Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch trilogy (Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, 2013-2015) follows Breq, the sole surviving fragment of an AI that once inhabited both a troop-transport starship and dozens of soldier bodies, now alone and hunting for revenge inside the vast, expansionist Radch empire. Breq's quest widens across the trilogy into a conflict with the empire's own fractured ruler, and the books use her alien difficulty perceiving gender to unsettle the space-opera conventions around her.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Imperial Radch at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s7
Shape
3 novels · 1 novelette · 3 short stories
1 author
reads like:science fictionidentityother star systemsfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 7 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- She Commands Me and I Obeydarkest · most intense
- Ancillary Mercybrightest
- Ancillary Justicecalmest