As the first novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards in the same year, it’s no stretch to call Ann Leckie’s debut space opera Ancillary Justice (Orbit, 2013) a phenomenon. While you’re waiting for the sequel, Ancillary Sword, please enjoy this reprint of “Night’s Slow Poison,” a short story by Ann Leckie from the world of the Imperial Radch. “Night’s Slow Poison” is a rich, claustrophobic story of a galactic voyage that forces one guardsmen to confront his uneasy family history through the lens of a passenger with his lost lover’s eyes.
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I thought that honor went to Neuromancer, no?
@1 – No, Neuromancer was the first to win the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.
(Following up – the Arthur C. Clarke Award wasn’t around yet when Neuromancer came out. And even though Ann Leckie was nominated for this year’s PKD, Ben H. Winters was the ultimate winner. If not, it would have been the first, uh, quadruple crown?)
Ahh, yes. Quite right. I mentally mixed the two up. Thanks
My only regret is that I already read it in Electric Velocipede, so I don’t have a new Leckie story to read now. And I really want one.