Novel: Ancillary Mercy

Novel: Ancillary Mercy
Rating: 6 of 5.
Synopsis: Why did it have to end?

Longer version -
I have adored this series, absolutely and completely. The writing style, the breadth, the focus on the details.

Each of these books focuses both on a large scale problem, and a minute one.

The small is written into the large. Each book focus on a virtue: Justice, Sword, Mercy. What's Sword? The appropriate use of force. If a virtue is the mean between two vices, we see those vices in each novel -- and their resolution into a virtue.

Each of these books also teaches something new and fundamentally important about feminism.

The first novel centers around two problems of justice, one at the individual level and one at the level of a civilization. That is, we see an injustice against a specific person, and this is echoes through society -- it is part of a systematic problem.

Each novel has this structure, and it is subtle as hell. Blink and you miss it.

Miss it, and you only get a cool a story about space ships, galactic politics, and all powerful guns. And aliens.

Read these books. They are amazing.