Personally, I don’t think you can truly call yourself a science fiction fan until you’ve read some of Ann Leckie’s work. The Imperial Radch series is one of my absolute favourite series, so I was so excited to get to read the next book in it. If you’ve read the original trilogy, or even if you haven’t, Translation State is one you won’t want to miss out on!
Don’t forget, you can still preorder Translation State wherever books are sold up until 6th June: US, UK, & int’l.
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presger and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something else isn’t “optimal behavior”. It’s the type of behavior that results in elimination.Â
But Qven rebels. And in doing so, their path collides with those of two others. Enae, a reluctant diplomat whose dead grandmaman has left hir an impossible task as an inheritance: hunting down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years. And Reet, an adopted mechanic who is increasingly desperate to learn about his genetic roots—or anything that might explain why he operates so differently from those around him.
As a Conclave of the various species approaches—and the long-standing treaty between the humans and the Presger is on the line—the decisions of all three will have ripple effects across the stars.
Translation State
Ann Leckie
Rep: nonbinary mcs & side characters, achillean mc
CWs: gore, cannibalism
Release: 6th June 2023
