Artificial Will, assertive and power.

The plot itself may seem fairly standard: artificial intelligence millennium, ancient ship "peacemaker" troop carrier, finds herself trapped in the body of one of his "outgrowth" a servant (ancillary) with limited capacity. This intelligence has only one purpose, quench his thirst for revenge and kill the cause of his misfortune.

The universe weaves Ann Leckie resembles in some codes to that of Ian Banks: world expansionist conquest, artificial intelligence, power struggles and political manipulation.

The narration, it is original. An artificial intelligence narrates his adventure, and goes almost infinite knowledge of the finite universe and perfectible an improved body. And the biggest problem of AI is not the art of escape with a human body, it is that of trying to understand the world lorsqu'auparavant we were omniscient and almost omnipotent.
Indeed, the treatment of gender becomes a real problem in the narrative, because everything is seen from the female point of view (it is true that English ship which is respectable women) and it is quite difficult for non-native I'm trying to find a man in all this world warrior. As what the war is not the prerogative of XY.

On the merits, the questions asked and their treatment are interesting. Two trends emerged, one related to knowledge, the other linked to power: the definition of man, the world's knowledge, self-knowledge, the limits of language, the limits of the genre, the definition of the genre, self-awareness and, consequently, freedom, tyranny, slavery, the self-determination and especially their right to be exterminated when they refuse their new master.

Makes you wonder if, over the tomes, artificial intelligence will not become more human than all the wishes which it will be confronted.

Read so.