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Get To Know The Incredible Starships of Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Trilogy

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The third book in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, Ancillary Mercy, comes out next week. Need a refresher course in the ships and personnel of her thrilling space-opera universe? We’ve got an exclusive infographic from Orbit Books.

Here’s the complete infographic, which explains the relative sizes and strengths of the three different classes of ships in Leckie’s universe. Click to embiggen:

Here’s the official synopsis for Ancillary Mercy, out Oct. 6:

For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station’s slums turns up someone who shouldn’t exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq’s enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai – ruler of an empire at war with itself.

Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren’t good, but that’s never stopped her before.


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