Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice is available on Audible as a 12 hrs 41 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Adjoa Andoh.
Publisher’s Summary
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards
This record-breaking novel following a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge is a must-read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.
“THRILLING, MOVING AND AWE-INSPIRING.” —Guardian
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren—a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.
“MIND-BLOWING.” —io9.com
“UTTER PERFECTION, 10/10.” —The Book Smugglers
“ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED AND GRACEFUL.” —Strange Horizons
“ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS.” —Elizabeth Bear, author of Ancestral Night
The Imperial Radch trilogy begins with Ancillary Justice, continues in Ancillary Sword and concludes with Ancillary Mercy
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 12 hrs 41 mins
- Publisher: Orbit
- Release year: 2018
- Audible category: Science Fiction & Fantasy / Science Fiction / Adventure
Listener Ratings
Ancillary Justice holds an average listener rating of 4.4/5 from 3082 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.6/5
- Story: 4.4/5
- 5-star ratings: 64% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
3/5 stars — “Good story, challenging narration “
Good story. Loved it! However, I stopped listening and started reading whenever I couldn’t understand the narrator. This occurred too often, due to strange names, unknown vocabulary / concepts, and pronunciation. The narrator’s approach to the 1st person POV named Toren of Justice is excellent and easily understood, but she adopted a variety of extremely twangy, or squeaky, or nasally, or high-pitched voices for many of the secondary and tertiary characters. Hurt my ears. The only character that sounded pleasantly “normal” to me was a ship and her ancillary bodies! Lol. Excellent story.— Skipper, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “This is a very densely packed book”
I think because this book is so carefully written and because it has very complicated names it would be better to read it than to listen to it, but my eyes are not good enough for that, sonIm grateful for the masterful job the narrator did. There was a lot of thought provoking situations that make the book more substantial than many other similar sci-fi books. I was a little annoyed that the author felt the need to make a big point about the subject population being gender neutral, though they did have genders, and then proceeded to refer to everyone as her, though some were more masculine and some more feminine. It felt ancillary to the story ):— Kindle Customer, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “A Fresh Take on Classic Sci-Fi”
Guys, it was really good. It was like slipping into a warm pair of socks right out of the dryer. Good, old school science fiction, like the Foundation series in it’s familiar warmth, but fresh and new in a way I really hadn’t realized I’d been missing. It also had a ton of fun.
You can tell Leckie had a blast with just all these great ideas for stuff to throw in a book. The first is the most disorienting: the main character’s native language has no gendered pronoun and little reason to define gender at all. The author uses "she" to describe all characters, which is wild but eminently believable for a future, syncretic or engineered language. And that’s really just the tip of the iceberg
Adjoa Andoh really does bring a clarity to the experience as well. The accents, inflections, and use of tone really give the book an animated feel. Not overly animated, mind you. But it’s clear she’s got incredible range and really holds back on testing the limits of that range until she needs to use it, which this book does require of her. The way she voices ancillaries and ships, too, is just synthetic enough to sound synthetic without becoming a Dalek impression.
Absolutely reccomend. I slept on this for awhile and I really ought not to have.— Audible customer, Audible listener
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