Q: With "Ancillary Sword" already winning the British Science Fiction Award, and up for the Nebula, Locus and Hugo, do you think you might repeat last year's success?Ī: The BSFA win took me completely by surprise. I had, of course, hoped that readers would like it, and felt that at least a few would, and hoped that it would get a few good reviews, but more than that wasn't really something I expected. Were you surprised by the critical reaction to "Ancillary Justice"?Īnswer: Very surprised! I figured that if I was lucky, the book would sell a couple thousand copies, and if I was even luckier it would sell enough that the publisher wouldn't cancel the rest of the contract. Question: Congratulations on all the awards you've picked up in the past year. We recently spoke with Leckie about her recent success as well as her plans: And Leckie may see a repeat of "Justice's" success- "Ancillary Sword" has also been nominated for several awards. With the success of "Ancillary Justice" came high expectations for its sequel, "Ancillary Sword." The novel, which hit shelves in October 2014, sees Breq leading a new ship on a diplomatic mission to Athoek, a planet known for its tea.
It is vintage space opera with a twist - Breq and the other characters use only feminine pronouns when describing each other. "Ancillary Justice" is the first in the Imperial Radch Trilogy, following Breq, a choral-music loving, millennia-old, spaceship's AI inhabiting the body of a human "ancillary." Breq is seeking revenge against the ruler of the Radchaai for the destruction of her ship and crew. Now Leckie, who will be appearing at Phoenix Comicon May 28-31, is the talk of the science-fiction world, as her critically acclaimed debut won virtually every major science-fiction award in 2014, including the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Clarke and British Science Fiction Awards. A few years ago Ann Leckie was another struggling writer, a housewife and mom selling short stories to sci-fi magazines and writing her debut novel, "Ancillary Justice."
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