Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time · Feb 25, 2025 · 46:34

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Ann is also the author of Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, Translation State, Provenance (all set in her Imperial Radch universe), and the excellent stand-alone fantasy novel The Raven Tower.

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We talked with Ann about:

1:12 Becoming a writer later in life
5:06 The inspiration for the Radch and Ancillary Justice
7:48 Creating a gender-less empire
12:43 Writing from the POV of an AI
16:56 Invisible exposition
20:26 Space opera inspired by the real world
26:16 Audiobooks and pronunciation
34:14 Will we get to see inside the Radch Dyson sphere?
35:49 Recent books Ann likes and her influences
42:22 Blurbing Murderbot
44:16 Ann's next book is set on a rogue planet!