Provenance: A new novel set in the world of the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning ANCILLARY JUSTICE
Sep 2017 · Hachette UK
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA (BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION) AWARD 2018
'Excellent' Book Smugglers
'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world' NPR
'Gripping . . . richly detailed and rewarding' SciFiNow
'Thrilling, out-of-this world stuff' Stylist
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with a thrilling new story of power, theft, privilege and birthright.
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA (BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION) AWARD 2018
'Excellent' Book Smugglers
'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world' NPR
'Gripping . . . richly detailed and rewarding' SciFiNow
'Thrilling, out-of-this world stuff' Stylist
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with a thrilling new story of power, theft, privilege and birthright.
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family and her world, before they are lost to her for good.
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4.4
30 reviews
James Carlton
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October 10, 2017
I loved the Imperial Radch trilogy so it really hurts to say that this book is a mess. There are just far too many characters, places, concepts and factions being juggled in the air at once with more revealed on every page, each with a new and stranger sounding name. It's not helped by a poor choice in gender neutral pronouns that seems to result in entire sentences departing the English language altogether. (Nothing against the idea but these just don't read well, Becky Chambers' used better ones for example) I know this is meant to be sci-fi and it's supposed to be a strange alien culture but this is just impenetrable.
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Andrew Rowbottom
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November 19, 2020
I totally enjoyed this book. In many ways not the same as the previous books in this universe, but the characterization was just as strong and thoroughly engaging.
J C
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October 10, 2017
Can't wait for the next
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About the author
The record-breaking winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction Association Awards for her debut novel, Ann Leckie lives in St Louis, Missouri, with her husband, children and cats. You can find her website at www.annleckie.com or chat to her on Twitter at @Ann_Leckie.
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