With nothing more than the perfume of jasmine flowers..." If you don't know the Ancillary series by now, you probably should. Ann Leckie's sociopolitical space opera almost singlehandedly breathed new ...

When her ship was destroyed along with all the other ancillaries, Breq was left alone and unconnected. She suffers from an ongoing crisis of identity and is emotionally stunted and unpredictable.

Breq — aka Fleet Captain Breq, aka the warship Justice of Toren, aka (for the last 20 years) an ancillary, aka a reanimated “corpse soldier” who once answered to One Esk Nineteen — is an artificial ...

Note • Leckie will be at the Webster Groves Public Library at 2 p.m. Nov. 14. A novel by Ann Leckie Published by Orbit, 368 pages, $15.99; paper ...