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Ancillary Mercy The conclusion to the trilogy that began with ANCILLARY JUSTICE Imperial Radch Ann Leckie 9780356502427 Books

This science fiction work is the final installment of the author’s Imperial Radch trilogy. If you have not read the first two volumes, the first a Hugo and Nebula Award winner (among others), do not try to start with this one. While the author inserts several information dumps in order to assist those that wish to treat this as a stand-alone work, they are not nearly enough to acquaint a newcomer with the backstory and are simply annoying to those who are familiar with the story.

This story takes place exclusively within the Atheok star system, with Fleet Commander Breq, the artificial intelligence previously known as starship Justice of Toren, commanding a Mercy class starship and providing security for the inhabited planet and space station within the system. The civil war between various factions of the Radch Emperor, Anaander Mianaai, is coming to a head.

There is no need to provide background; if you read the first two books of the trilogy, you are familiar with the landscape. The artificial intelligences in the story (the starships, the space station and various individual ancillaries) are given a much larger role in the conclusion of the story, as Breq injects free will into the mix. As a whole, this was a very good science fiction trilogy and I can recommend it without reservation.


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Ancillary Mercy The conclusion to the trilogy that began with ANCILLARY JUSTICE Imperial Radch Ann Leckie 9780356502427 Books Reviews

I loved Ancillary Justice but this book and Ancillary Sword were both terrible. Okay, not terrible terrible, just terrible.

As I mentioned in my review of Ancillary Sword, that book had no conclusion. This book has no real beginning since it is simply a continuation of the story. Only, annoyingly, it keeps having the characters think about, or the author stuff in, bits of background in awkward places. Since you must have read Ancillary Sword to get anything out of this (and Ancillary Justice to have any reason for reading Ancillary Sword), then no one needs that background. And we don't need it twice, or sometimes even thrice.

This book has most of the same problems as its predecessor and none of the originality of Ancillary Justice. Basically it is a space-opera. Our golden hero fights its own internal (but minor) demons while saving the universe. The ship's crew goes around pretending to be ancillaries, which is an obvious attempt by the author to bring back some of the magic of the original novel. All it does is strip them of personality or character development. Since they are referred to by designations, this makes their position in obscurity assured.

The novel does have a conclusion, although unsatisfactory, unlike Ancillary Sword, so that's good.

Some novels weren't meant to have sequels.
I really don't know what to make of ANCILLARY MERCY, the third and, presumably, final book in the Imperial Radch series. ANCILLARY JUSTICE, the first book in the series, took the field by storm, winning all sorts of awards, and deservedly so. It introduced the concept of the ancillary, an individual that isn't an individual; a being that is at once a starship and part of a starship. It was also lauded for its use of a single gender pronoun for both genders, rendering the concept of gender itself nearly irrelevant, if not completely so. It was well written, and injected a terrific breath of fresh air into the space opera sub-genre.

ANCILLARY SWORD, the second book in the series, seemed to indeed suffer from being the second book in a series, kind of a bridge between the introduction and set up of the story and what would presumably be the triumphant, climactic finish to the entire story. In my review of ANCILLARY SWORD, I called it more of a soap opera than a space opera, with all sorts family squabbles and intrigue, and in my mind not a lot happened.

Which brings us to ANCILLARY MERCY. A friend of mine commented something to the effect of "that's a lot of book for what happened in it". I think he hit it on the head. But let's not get ahead of ourselves here. So, aside from the neat and interesting concepts introduced in the first book, the overarching storyline is that Breq, former Justice of Toren ancillary and now Fleet Captain of the Radch forces in the Atheok system, is out to destroy Anaander Mianaai, the Lord of the Radch. You see, there's a civil war going on in Radch space, but the thing is that the civil war is between at least two different instantiations (okay, the former software developer in me is coming out) of Anaander. Breq has been made Fleet Captain by one of those instantiations, but she is looking to go after the other instantiation. I do waffle a bit on how many there are, because Breq herself thinks there might be more than two, but that was never followed up on.

The contains familiar characters, as Lieutenant Seivarden and Tisarwat are back along for the ride. We have yet another Presger translator as well as an ancillary from another ship that has apparently remained hidden from the Radch empire for a very long time. Quite frankly, I still haven't quite discerned the purpose of the new ancillary, and the Presger translator seems, in general, to be there for increasingly annoying comic relief, constantly asking for fish and fish sauce (this tells you a lot if most of what I remember from the book is about the Presger translator). Then again, the translator does make a decision that will influence the future of the empire, but it is never followed up on.

And there is the final confrontation with Anaander Mianaai. I had been wondering for quite some time how the whole situation was going to be resolved, as there are numerous Anaanders on both sides of the civil war. The answer to that question is, in my mind, quite disappointing. Nothing much happens, really (other than a lot of tea drinking), and the solution to the problem doesn't seem to be much of a solution at all. It seems that the conflict should be one that is difficult to win, given the numbers involved. In the end, I'm not sure there was a winner or a loser.

There is a lot of high praise going around for ANCILLARY MERCY right now. I am afraid that I'm in the minority - I just don't see it. As I said to another of one of my friends recently, when he asked what I thought of it, "I wasn't moved". There was still a lot of family squabbling, still a lot of political maneuvering, but not a lot of interesting goings on. As I was disappointed in ANCILLARY SWORD, I was even more disappointed in ANCILLARY MERCY. While the book itself was well written, I'm not sure what it was written about. I'm left with an empty feeling that a lot more was promised, but not enough was delivered. It's not clear to me that if there is ever another book written in the Radch universe that I will pick it up and read it.
This science fiction work is the final installment of the author’s Imperial Radch trilogy. If you have not read the first two volumes, the first a Hugo and Nebula Award winner (among others), do not try to start with this one. While the author inserts several information dumps in order to assist those that wish to treat this as a stand-alone work, they are not nearly enough to acquaint a newcomer with the backstory and are simply annoying to those who are familiar with the story.

This story takes place exclusively within the Atheok star system, with Fleet Commander Breq, the artificial intelligence previously known as starship Justice of Toren, commanding a Mercy class starship and providing security for the inhabited planet and space station within the system. The civil war between various factions of the Radch Emperor, Anaander Mianaai, is coming to a head.

There is no need to provide background; if you read the first two books of the trilogy, you are familiar with the landscape. The artificial intelligences in the story (the starships, the space station and various individual ancillaries) are given a much larger role in the conclusion of the story, as Breq injects free will into the mix. As a whole, this was a very good science fiction trilogy and I can recommend it without reservation.