Vast political games and economic intrigue unspool over the course of the Radch trilogy, causing the dominant human presence in the galaxy, the titular Radchaai Empire, to be plunged into a civil war Breq is quickly swept up in these events. The critical success of Ancillary Justice, and the positive reaction to its two sequels, Ancillary Sword (2014) and Ancillary Mercy (2015), has established Leckie as a creative power in contemporary science fiction. Clarke (it also won the British Science Fiction Association award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, the Kitschies award for best debut, and the Japanese Seiun Award for best translated novel). The Imperial Radch trilogy followed the remnant of an artificial intelligence, Breq, who previously operated as the networked consciousness of the interstellar warship “Justice of Toren.” The first book in this series, Ancillary Justice (2013), is also the first novel to win the major science fiction awards on both sides of the Atlantic: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Arthur C. Ingray’s response to the wide-reaching turmoil? “It’s not our problem, I guess.”Īt first glance, this attitude seems to perfectly encompass Provenance’s relationship with its trilogy of predecessors. EARLY IN Ann Leckie’s Provenance, a character offers the protagonist, Ingray Aughskold, a brief précis of the galaxy-spanning political upheaval that followed the events of Leckie’s earlier novels.
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