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Ancillary Mercy is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in October 2015. It is the final novel in Leckie's "Imperial Radch" space opera trilogy, which began with Ancillary Justice (2013) and was followed by Ancillary Sword (2014).
Ann Leckie (born March 2, 1966 [1]) [3] is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.Her 2013 debut novel Ancillary Justice, which features artificial consciousness and gender-blindness, won the 2014 Hugo Award for "Best Novel", [4] [5] as well as the Nebula Award, [6] the Arthur C. Clarke Award, [7] and the BSFA Award. [8]
A review for Los Angeles Review of Books called the novel "daring" and "thoughtful", stating that novels such as Translation State are performing "vital cultural work". [3] A review for Paste Magazine called Leckie a "luminary of modern SFF", praising the novel's exploration of deep questions and its simultaneously relatable characters. [4]
Ancillary Justice is a space opera set thousands of years in the future in which the principal power in human space is the expansionist Radch empire. The empire uses spaceships controlled by AIs, who control human bodies ("ancillaries") to use as soldiers.
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel.
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He also flies the aircraft at the end of the book, as the only one with enough experience to work out how. Bryan Grenfell Bryan works as an anthropologist in the Galactic Milieu, but goes into Exile in pursuit of his love, Mercy. When he arrives in the Many Colored Land, he is regarded as special by the Tanu, who allow him to work bareneck ...
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