March 28, 2025

This year I have enjoyed re-reading Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy. I was also very pleased that I passed them on to my older daughter and they devoured the trilogy too.

I previously read these books five years ago and wrote about them here and my opinion is unchanged. Iain M. Banks’ earlier novel Matter seems like a clear ‘upriver’ source for Leckie to draw on but, perhaps controversially, I think I will declare Leckie the better writer!

Re-reading Banks’ science fiction a few years ago I was struck with the realisation that he writes action, battles and technology better than he does people. Leckie writes people and their conversations, concerns, interests and sense of humour in a completely credible way and this is a delight.

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