Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice has won every significant sci-fi award this year including the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus awards but I just couldn't get into it. Maybe I need my sci-fi spoon fed to me.

It's got chops certainly, exploring the concept of personal identity and what that means when you're a ship commanding thousands of bodies as a distributed AI now reduced to a single ancillary bent on revenge against a dictatorial galactic emperor that is essentially immortal and spread out over a multitude of bodies that may or may not be plotting against each other. Yeah, that.

I want to read that book, but then I realize I have and was pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. Maybe it's the writing, the shifting pronouns (it's a post gendered society) or maybe I just wasn't in the right headspace to read it.