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Provenance

By: Ann Leckie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS
PART OF THE HUGO-AWARD WINNING SERIES

'Excellent' Book Smugglers

'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world' NPR

'Gripping . . . richly detailed and rewarding' SciFiNow

'Thrilling, out-of-this world stuff' Stylist

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with a thrilling new story of power, theft, privilege and birthright.
A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned.
Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil, at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future, her family, and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

The Imperial Radch trilogy begins with Ancillary Justice, continues in Ancillary Sword and concludes with Ancillary Mercy.
Also available now: Provenance is a stunning standalone adventure set in the same world as Ancillary Justice. NPR calls it 'A fitting addition to the Ancillary world'.©2017 Ann Leckie (P)2017 Little Brown Book Group Science Fiction Fiction Solar System Interstellar
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This is an interesting and entertaining story by Ann Leckie, with good characters and an intriguing plot - but what makes it special is the superb reading by Adjoa Andoh, who does a superb job. A great, great listen.

Excellent performance.

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Great story but terrible recording / production. The plosives throughout the whole tale really pack a punch. It's incredibly annoying and painful in parts.

Great story

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Ingray is not Breq, not even close. She is an anxious teenager way in over her head, but with plenty of character growth to compensate.

Leckie frankly writes the best aliens I have seen in science fiction, and it remains true. Plenty of interesting cultures and transhumanistic aspects.

There are at least three separate conspiracies crashing into one another, and it is wonderful. And speaking of threes, the book has an adorable non-trinary character.

Please, Leckie, write more within the setting, it is amazing and I wish to have more of it.

An excellent spin-off

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It's good to be back in the world of the radch, and the characters are just as compelling. Leckie's knack for language is also in evidence but somehow this may doesn't grab me as much as the ancillary series. This is good its just not as good...

Good, but not as good as the ancillary series

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The author's subtle humour is delivered by this accomplished narrator with a deadpan style and a twinkle in her voice.
Initially, I worried the various different pronouns were likely to get tiresome, but it never happened, the story took over and I spent more time listening to the dialogue for the humour. You do have to listen for it, it is never signalled.
While it will be described by some as politically correct and even a feminist novel, these labels are irrelevant to what is a sci-fi novel of political intrigue and a range of characters displaying a great deal of panache.

A complex, nuanced vision.

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