Provenance
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780316388672 (031638867X)
ASIN: 031638867X
Publish date: 2017-09-26
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
This was more of a light and quick read than I expected. Diving into a new sci-fi author, I always worry that the story will get bogged down in explanations of technology and inter-worlds/inter-species politics, but that's not the case with this book. Leckie provides a good story and interesting cha...
I only made it 3 chapters. At that point, I asked a couple of friends some pointed questions because it seemed like this might not be my kind of things. Based on their answers, yeah, not going to be my kind of thing. "If you liked Goblin Emperor, you'll like this" being one of the deciding factors. ...
"Provenance" is a delightfully deft piece of genre-twisting science fiction that pivots around the idea that our identity is the product of the story that we tell ourselves about who we are and where came from. It examines how the things that give that story a provenance, a history of ownership, bec...
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain pricele...
Back into to the Radch universe but at a different angle, Leckie brings us a much more politically bent adventure. Ingary, in a desperate attempt to be the heir of her mother's political title, puts all her cards on one risky move to get a criminal out of prison and to reveal the location of lost, p...