2024/098: Translation State — Ann Leckie

2024/098: Translation State — Ann Leckie

The treaty was everything. The treaty was why we existed to begin with. The way that Reet had talked about the treaty, the way it was talked about in Pirate Exiles of the Death Moons, you would think that only the treaty stood between all humans and certain death. Which maybe was true... [p. 352]

It's a decade since I read Ancillary Justice, and for some reason I never finished the trilogy: but I did not find Translation State impenetrable or especially confusing. It helps that Enae, one of the viewpoint characters, is being slowly introduced to the wider universe after years spent tending hir recently-deceased grandmother. Sie's free to travel, and encouraged to take up a role that involves invstigating the disappearance, two hundred years ago, of a Presger Translator.( Read more... )