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Violence
Some
Military violence; a massacre in the backstory; some combat
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological weight of being one consciousness distributed across many bodies, then reduced to one; questions of identity and complicity in imperial violence
What this book is about
Breq is the last surviving ancillary of the troop carrier Justice of Toren—a warship that once controlled thousands of soldier-bodies simultaneously. Something broke the ship, killed the other ancillaries, and left Breq with a single body and a mission of revenge against Anaander Mianaai, the emperor of the Radch empire. Leckie's Hugo and Nebula Award winner is celebrated for its treatment of gender (the Radch language has no gendered pronouns) and its exploration of identity, empire, and justice.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
A massacre depicted as a central backstory event
Questions about consciousness and identity across distributed systems
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