Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice
Cover art
AuthorAnn Leckie
Cover artistJohn Harris
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherOrbit Books
Publication date
1 October 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Ebook
Audiobook (read by Adjoa Andoh)
Pages409
AwardsHugo Award for Best Novel (2014)
Nebula Award for Best Novel (2014)
BSFA Award for Best Novel (2013)
Arthur C. Clarke Award (2014)
Locus Award for Best First Novel (2014)
Kitschies Golden Tentacle for best debut novel (2013)
Seiun Award for Best Translated Novel (2016)
ISBN978-0-316-24662-0
Followed byAncillary Sword 

Ancillary Justice is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ann Leckie, published in 2013. It is Leckie's debut novel and the first in her Imperial Radch space opera trilogy, followed by Ancillary Sword (2014) and Ancillary Mercy (2015). The novel follows Breq—who is both the sole survivor of a starship destroyed by treachery and the vessel of that ship's artificial consciousness—as she seeks revenge against the ruler of her civilization. The cover art is by John Harris.

Ancillary Justice received critical praise and won the Hugo Award,[1] Nebula Award, BSFA Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Locus Award for Best First Novel. It is the only novel to have won the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards.[2]

Two other novels, Provenance (2017) and Translation State (2023), and two short stories, "Night's Slow Poison" and "She Commands Me and I Obey", are set in the same fictional universe.[3][4]

  1. ^ "2014 Hugo Award Winners". The Hugo Awards. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. ^ Henderson, Jane (18 August 2014). "Leckie is first to take triple crown of science fiction awards". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  3. ^ Leckie, Ann (10 June 2014). "Night's Slow Poison". Tor.com. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  4. ^ Leckie, Ann (10 November 2014). "She Commands Me and I Obey". Strange Horizons. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.