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Currently Reading #37
Jun. 30th, 2014 01:57 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
littlerdog.livejournal.comAm currently reading Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. This has to be the most recent SF book I've read in years. It was only published in October 2013. Not even a year old! Heavens.
The book came to my attention when it was winning awards. That's not necessarily a reason why I'd buy something, but hey, sometimes I can make an exception. I'm enjoying it so far, especially the confusion the narrator experiences over identifying the sex of other characters. This keeps you off-balance, making it very difficult for you to assign gender roles to anyone. I'm not even sure of the narrator's sex. Leckie makes this work very well; I can see however how it could be simply annoying in other hands. Here, it enriches the experience of the POV of a narrator whose own humanity is at best questionable.
The book came to my attention when it was winning awards. That's not necessarily a reason why I'd buy something, but hey, sometimes I can make an exception. I'm enjoying it so far, especially the confusion the narrator experiences over identifying the sex of other characters. This keeps you off-balance, making it very difficult for you to assign gender roles to anyone. I'm not even sure of the narrator's sex. Leckie makes this work very well; I can see however how it could be simply annoying in other hands. Here, it enriches the experience of the POV of a narrator whose own humanity is at best questionable.
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