These swarms display complex behavior arising from self-organization and can incapacitate any intelligent threat by a powerful surge of electromagnetic interference. When they feel threatened, they can assemble into huge clouds, able to travel at a high speed and even to climb to the top of the troposphere. Individually, or in small groups, they are quite harmless and capable of only very simple behavior. The protagonists speculate that a kind of evolution must have taken place under the selection pressures of “robot wars,” with the only surviving form being swarms of minuscule, insect-like micromachines. During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a form of quasi-life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines, apparently left behind by an alien civilization ship, which landed a very long time ago. So, just make sure your expectations are a little more realistic than mine were, and you’ll probably love Ancillary Justice.Ī powerful and armed interstellar space ship called Invincible lands on the planet Regis III, which seems uninhabited and bleak, to investigate the loss of her sister ship, Condor.

However, I was disappointed because all that praise made me think was going to be one of the most amazing science fiction books ever written, and that my life would be fundamentally different after reading it. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy. Clever, fun, inventive, occasionally shocking, and overall a great read with fascinating characters.

Newspapers nationwide heaped praise on it.Īnd you know what? It’s a really good book. In an act of treachery, the Justice of Toren is destroyed, and the AI-now going by the name of Breq-is a single human body filled with unanswered questions and a burning desire for vengeance.Īncillary Justice is the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. These AI-run soldiers were known as ancillaries. That intelligence also linked thousands of human soldiers, each soldier’s mind completely run by the AI. The Justice of Toren was a colossal starship run by an artificial intelligence. Ancillary Justice is more a Single-AI-uprising tale than a full all-robots-fight-humans story.

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