Hugonauts: The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

Interview with Ann Leckie - author of Ancillary Justice!

Episode Summary

We are so excited to interview Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice - the only book to have won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Arthur C. Clarke award!

Episode Notes

Ann is also the author of Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, Translation State, Provenance (all set in her Imperial Radch universe), and the excellent stand-alone fantasy novel The Raven Tower.

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We talked with Ann about: 

• 1:12 Becoming a writer later in life
• 5:06 The inspiration for the Radch and Ancillary Justice
• 7:48 Creating a gender-less empire
• 12:43 Writing from the POV of an AI
• 16:56 Invisible exposition
• 20:26 Space opera inspired by the real world
• 26:16 Audiobooks and pronunciation
• 34:14 Will we get to see inside the Radch Dyson sphere?
• 35:49 Recent books Ann likes and her influences
• 42:22 Blurbing Murderbot
• 44:16 Ann's next book is set on a rogue planet!