Provenance

Name: Provenance
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Ann Leckie
ISBN: 9781478923176

Author: Ann Leckie

Narrator: Adjoa Andoh

Unabridged: 12 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 09/26/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Military Science Fiction

Synopsis

An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel set in the world of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Imperial Radch trilogy.

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a priceless artifact.

But Ingray and her charge return to her home 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 and her world, before they are lost to her for good.

About Ann Leckie

The record-breaking winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction Association Awards for her debut novel, Ann Leckie lives in St Louis, Missouri, with her husband, children and cats. You can find her website at www.annleckie.com or chat to her on Twitter at @Ann_Leckie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on October 03, 2017

Ann Leckie's new novel is still set in the Imperial Radch universe, but don't be fooled... It's a very focused novel that details issues of family, inheritance, cultural relevance, and politics while completely surrounded by aliens and odd mores. Indeed, this novel is more of a comedy of manners tha......more

Goodreads review by Gary on December 28, 2017

Now that the Strong Female Protagonist (meaning, what happens when a lazy writer writes a female action hero that is basically just a stereotypical male action hero with girl parts) has become a tired cliché, it is something of a subversive pleasure to follow Ingray, the heroine of Ann Leckie’s new......more

Goodreads review by Philip on October 30, 2017

3.75ish stars. I went into this expecting it to be dense and complex and maybe even a little challenging, based on descriptions of the author's Imperial Radch series that shares a universe with this book. While the universe itself is quite intricate, including alien races, cultures, and detailed pol......more

Goodreads review by Vroom on September 27, 2017

I was torn between "it was okay" (2 stars) and "I liked it" (3 stars). For the most part, the book was a tedious slog with an uninspiring protagonist (no matter how much all the other characters kept telling us she was awesome). So why did I waver with 3? Because Leckie decided not to milk Breq for......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on March 09, 2018

This was a fantastic spin-off novel from Ann Leckie's excellent Ancillary Justice series. The story was set in the same world but set in a new region of human occupied space outside of the Radch and featured a completely new cast of characters. The good news is that this story was every bit as good......more

Quotes

"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could."—John Scalzi

"More intriguing cultures to explore, more characters to care about, more Leckie to love."—Kirkus

"Character-centered space opera from one of SF's brightest stars."—Library Journal

"A perfect follow-up to the trilogy."—The New York Times

"The trademarks of Leckie's talent are on display, with even more worlds for readers to discover and some teasing overlap with her previous series. But what makes this book is watching Ingray overcome her poor self-esteem and discover who she actually wants to be, demonstrating again the genre's capacity to tell compelling, human stories."—RT Book Reviews

"The intricacies and oddities are a delight.... A thrill for fans of heists and capers."—Washington Post

"A careful look at how no one's immune from politics, even if they think themselves outside the fray . . . A story about the necessity of exploring the edges of the known."—NPR

"An entertaining, thoughtful, and clever entry that both Leckie's new and returning readers can delve into and enjoy."—The Los Angeles Review of Books

"[Leckie] raises provocative questions about identity, family and self-esteem. By the end, both neophytes and longtime Leckie fans are likely to be pleased."—The San Francisco Chronicle

"The trappings of widescreen sci-fi, and the attention to character, to the small moments, to the inner lives of those living through outsized events . . . Just read it."—B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog