TRANSLATION STATE
When cultures collide
RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook
Author Ann Leckie
Publisher Orbit Books
There are a few rare novelists who, despite clearly being the smartest person in most of the rooms they enter, spend time quietly getting on with things. They don’t avoid the limelight, but they don’t much seek it out, preferring to let their work be front and centre and treating promotion as a kind of professional duty.
Ann Leckie is one such understated novelist, a writer whose 2013 debut Ancillary Justice is the only novel to have won the Hugo, Nebula and Clarke awards. In the years since, she’s turned out a series of fine books, all of which twist SF and/or fantasy tropes and reward close reading. It’s therefore no surprise to find that Translation State, Leckie’s first novel in four years, follows the same pattern.