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u/xxxssszzz · 7 pointsr/scifi

The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie beginning with Ancillary Justice deals with all of these issues from a unique, very interesting and alien perspective. The amazon page claims it is the only novel ever to sweep the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

u/CalibanDrive · 6 pointsr/SRSDiscussion

For such speculative questions, it is often useful to turn to speculative fiction.

There is a very good recent Hugo Award winning science fiction novel out called Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie, it depicts a genderless, space faring society.

Unlike earlier feminist Sci-Fi, like for example Ursula LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness which depicts a biologically hermaphroditic society, in Leckie's universe, the people in this society still have the same range of physical bodies as the physical bodies that we see on Earth today, but their culture does not apply differentiated gender categories to them. There, however, still social categories. All citizens are citizens, all non-citizens are non-citizens. There are still rich and poor, powerful and powerless, there are still 'human' and 'sub-human'; but sex and romance are discretionary, a person wears whatever clothes are fashionable and pleasing to them, they can romance and have sex with whomever consents, their career paths are mostly determined by social rank, family lineage, personal contacts, and to some extent merit, but never gender.

What's interesting, also, about Leckie's universe, is that even though gender and gender oppression are completely absent from this society, it is still for other reasons horrendously dystopic (and trigger warning: it deals with issues of colonization, cultural subjugation and slavery in very graphic and harrowing ways).

nevertheless, I would highly recommend it.

u/rocketsocks · 6 pointsr/Fantasy
u/Coltrane1967 · 6 pointsr/printSF

Here's a few recent books, all good or very good:

Last Plane to Heaven, Jay Lake (short story collection)


The Adjacent
, Chris Priest

On the Steel Breeze, Alistair Reynolds (Book2 in series)


The Causal Angel, Hannu Rajaniemi (Book3 in series)


Strange Bodies, Marcel Theroux


The Martian, Andy Weir (recommended!)


ShipStar, Benford-Niven (Book2 in series)


Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie


A Darkling Sea, James Cambias


The Disestablishment of Paradise, by Phillip Mann {I've just started this one, so can't say yet if good or great or crappy, but it's started off very good).


...And if you have not yet discovered The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanDerMeer, you should probably check it out.

u/Sqeaky · 5 pointsr/booksuggestions

It is not quite what you ask, but it was an interesting read regarding gender roles. I guess it was Sci Fi and not fantasy, so maybe you won't like it at all.

Ancilliary Justice by Ann Leckie, completely removes gender roles from the character. There is no romance from the main character Breq but one of the supporting characters does make several advances on the main character. Breq rebuffs them all to get on with his/her/its mission. There are a number of situations where you might think gender roles would get involved, but there is always some mitigating circumstance.

u/anem0ne · 4 pointsr/GamerGhazi

Sigh. This is the same kind of shit that led to people bitching about Ancillary Justice.

Use 'he' as the default, and nobody minds. Use 'she' as the default, and some people suddenly flip their shit.

u/cybudo · 4 pointsr/books

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie!

Sequel to the renowned Ancillary Justice and second in the trilogy.

Very stoked!

u/1point618 · 3 pointsr/SF_Book_Club

back to the beginning

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u/nasi_goreng · 2 pointsr/indonesia

Right now, I'm on a tour of Space Opera; Ancillary Justice before sleep, Abaddon's Gate during commute, and The Sundiver on my laptop during downtime at work. Between those 3, Abaddon's gate is the most interesting one, although it requires you to read the first two books.

u/baetylbailey · 2 pointsr/printSF

Try The Quantum Thief a hit-tech, high-energy adventure.

Also,

> .. books aren't sexist or racist but not about those issues ...

Ancillary Justice which folks might not suggest because of its well-known take on gender, but it's not about that at all. It's pace is pretty moderate, though.


u/Coonsan · 1 pointr/RealityAlternative



New Star Wars on Friday! Rapscallions, rebels, and rogues! The Rebel Alliance (or Resistance, I guess? Force Awakens is weird) has some murky goals… Andrew helps Greg understand Star Wars backstory through real world history, and Greg wonders why nobody in the Galaxy knows how to read.

Recommendations:

X-Wing Series by Michael Stackpole

Outbound Flight by Timothy Zahn

Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie


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u/RichardMHP · 1 pointr/writing

Gotta spread it out. I almost want to say Don't worry about your readers not quite understanding all of the backstory for a particular reference when it would first be relevant, or even before it would be relevant. Go ahead and let them have some mystery. If they don't know the precise why of how a reference is meaningful to the characters, that won't necessarily turn them off, especially if you make it clear that the reference is meaningful to the characters.

An example I would give because I've been reading it recently is Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. There is a ton of backstory, world-building, expository information, etc etc etc, that one could ladle out in the first chapter. It's a very complex world with a very complex history. And instead of being bogged down and bored by getting it all up-front, Leckie layers it through the narrative. It's a good two or three chapters before you get the element of exposition that makes it clear why the main character is reacting the way they are. You're more than half-way through the book before you know anything at all about an element of the universe's world that winds up being essential to understanding the entire driving force of the plot. She does a remarkable job of slowly slipping the world-building in in tastes and drips and awesome moments. At the end of the day, do you understand exactly every aspect of what the hell is going on in the first chapter? No, of course not, you lack the context for a lot of what is going on. But you're intrigued enough by what's going on that you want to find out what that context is, and so you keep reading.

u/2hardtry · 1 pointr/fantasywriters

You can have an alien or an animal or a monster be your main character, but the secret is that you have to make them human. In order for your reader to identify with them, they have to have some human qualities.

Essentially, your hivemind is a single entity, a single personality. It just happens to be able to inhabit multiple bodies simultaneously. It's more common in SF than fantasy. The case that immediately comes to mind is Ancillary Justice.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/AskWomen

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie