Ann Leckie

Interesting, weird and deep. I want to know mooooore!

The Far Reaches, a series of six separately published short pieces, provides a new venue for stories that used to be featured on the covers of long-gone science fiction magazines. All of them are set in deep space. Ann Leckie’s The Long Game tells us how a short-lived but curious slug-like creature plays “the long game” to get into space. Refreshingly light.

I really enjoyed this! It's a very complex and ambitious narrative that I think Leckie balanced masterfully, but I do feel another reading is in order to fully appreciate it. I know it's a good book when I've finished reading, but I still get pangs of "Aw, I wish I wasn't done," and Ancillary Justice is definitely one of those books. I also enjoy characters that make me feel one way at the start and completely differently by the end (Seivarden in this case). I'm eager for the sequel.

This was more like a 3.5 for me. I enjoyed it but I just didn’t really care about the story like I did in the first one.