{"id":14026,"date":"2019-03-08T19:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2019-03-09T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:07:02","slug":"ancillary-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ancillary-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancillary Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Anaander Mianaai is at war with herself&#8230; That war may reach Athoek, or it may not. Either way&#8230; We must see to the safety of the citizens here ourselves. <strong>All<\/strong> the citizens here, not just the ones with the right accents, or the proper religious beliefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancillary Mercy<\/strong> by Ann Leckie, published in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Athoek Station was just getting over a disaster in which the gravity had been turned off for 3 days. Some representative of the Presger was arriving &#8212; extremely powerful aliens that humans had a treaty with. But the Presger&#8217;s former translator on Athoek had been killed by someone foolish. And the Lord of the Radch &#8212; the one that disliked Breq immensely &#8212; was about to arrive in force.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/ancillary-sword\/\"><strong>Ancillary Sword<\/strong><\/a> and completes the Imperial Radch trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about respect for all intelligences &#8212; organic and artificial &#8212; and letting them choose their own destiny.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the problem is magnificent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 3 books by Leckie, and I will read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Anaander Mianaai is at war with herself&#8230; That war may reach Athoek, or it may not. Either way&#8230; We must see to the safety of the citizens here ourselves. All the citizens here, not just the ones with the right accents, or the proper religious beliefs.&#8221; Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie, published in 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-14026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14026\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}