![]() This novel is a classic page-turner, for the plot’s excitement, drama, tragedy and diabolical intrigue. Leckie is a natural, skilled storyteller, not a wannabe author. By showing that gender isn’t necessary, Leckie has made a fundamental change in how to write about people in a future society. They spent their creative energies thinking through the technical implications of an invention, yet still assumed that society would continue into the 2300s as if it were the 1950s. ![]() ![]() I often rage about the older sf novelists’ failure of vision. This is beyond refreshing: it is game-changing, a major technical achievement. She has constructed a society in which gender is irrelevant, even down to a language that lacks gendered words. ![]() Ann Leckie has written a believable, genderless narrative voice, confidently and consistently in a novel nearly 400 pages long. ![]()
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