LECKIE ANN

(P/B) ANCILLARY JUSTICE
The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year. They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now. The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are c...
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Η ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΡΕΝ
Κάποτε διέθετα είκοσι σώματα, είκοσι ζευγάρια μάτια [...] Κάποτε, οι διαταγές που είχα ήταν να σκοτώνω χιλιάδες τώρα πρέπει να σκοτώσω έναν. Σ' έναν απόμακρο, παγωμένο πλανήτη μια περιπλανώμενη γυναίκα είναι περισσότερα απ' όσα δείχνει και λιγότερα απ' όσα ήταν. Είκοσι χρόνια πριν ήταν η "Δικαιοσύνη της Τόρεν": ένα κολοσσιαίο μεταγωγικό του πολεμικού στόλου της διαγαλαξιακής Αυτοκρατορίας της Ραντς, με μια πολυδαίδαλη τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, εγκατεστημένη σε δεκάδες νεκρά σώματα κατακτημένων. Έπειτα από μια πράξη προδοσίας, η "Δικαιοσύνη" κατα...
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(P/B) ANCILLARY SWORD
Ancillary Sword is the hotly anticipated sequel to the science fiction debut that everybody's talking about. Ancillary Justice won every major science fiction award in 2014, making Ann Leckie the first and only writer to win all three of the genre's most prestigious awards in the same year: the Hugo, the Arthur C. Clarke and the Nebula Award. Ancillary Sword is currently shortlisted for this year's Nebula and BSFA Awards. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she only has ...
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(P/B) ANCILLARY MERCY
Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice, the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's old enemy, the divided, heavily armed, and possibly insane Anaander Mianaai - ruler of an empire at war with itself. Breq could f...
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(P/B) PROVENANCE
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...
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