Ann Leckie is easily one of the most exciting talents on the scene right now. The Ancillary Justice books pretty much won every award going, garnering favourable comparisons to the likes of Ian M. Banks and James S.A. Corey. Her latest book, Provenance, is set in the same galaxy, but doesn’t star the Imperial Radch, featured so intensely in the ‘Ancillary’ series.
Provenance focuses on the hapless character of Ingray Aughskold, a hyper-privileged brat who is part of a highly competitive family environment. Plucked from poverty as a youth, Ingray is desperate to humiliate her brother Danach, with whom she shares a rivalry with. As the story opens, we learn that her plan revolves around vestiges, artefacts of her culture’s past. These are literally status symbols; the more old junk you have the higher your social
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/19266-book-review-provenance
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