Ancillary Justice

For the 2018 Read Harder Challenge category of sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author. This was a challenging book! It had a wealth of details about worlds and space travel, elaborate military titles and family names, puzzling hidden meanings within conversations, but also a great climactic ending. Most interesting to me was the skillful way the author represented gender fluidity throughout. “She” is used as the default pronoun, and the main character is often chagrined when she happens to select the wrong pronoun when referring to individuals she doesn't know. That is, I think the main character is female...