Ann is also the author of Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy, Translation State, Provenance (all set in her Imperial Radch universe), and the excellent stand-alone fantasy novel The Raven Tower.
We talked with Ann about:
- 1:12 Becoming a writer later in life
- 5:06 The inspiration for the Radch and Ancillary Justice
- 7:48 Creating a gender-less empire
- 12:43 Writing from the POV of an AI
- 16:56 Invisible exposition
- 20:26 Space opera inspired by the real world
- 26:16 Audiobooks and pronunciation
- 34:14 Will we get to see inside the Radch Dyson sphere?
- 35:49 Recent books Ann likes and her influences
- 42:22 Blurbing Murderbot
- 44:16 Ann's next book is set on a rogue planet!
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