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Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

Update: 2025-02-25
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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.

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!
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Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

Ann Leckie, Cody Troyer, Brent Gaisford