Autobiographie d'Alice Toklas

Idioma French

Publicado el 1990 por Éditions Gallimard.

ISBN:
978-2-07-020134-1
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Review of 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' on 'Storygraph'

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Breq was once part of a huge ship’s AI, linking the ship to thousands of “Ancillaries”, captured peoples turned into soldiers controlled by the AI. After a betrayal from the highest levels destroyed the ship, Breq is just one fragment of her former self. 1000 years later, she plans on revenge before she comes across Seivarden, a former lieutenant on her ship suspended all this time.


I heard this mentioned often in comparison to other books so I decided to check it out. The narrative jumps between future Breq and her quest for justice, dealing with a drug-addicted depressed Seivarden; and the past where the events of an annexed planet lead to her destruction.


It covers a decent amount of Breq and the world-building as a whole for one book, with cultural shifts over time, the diversity within a splintered AI and the expansionism of the state. The main culture’s …