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Ann Leckie is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Her 2013 debut novel Ancillary Justice, which features artificial consciousness and gender-blindness, won the 2014 Hugo Award for "Best Novel", as well as the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the BSFA Award. The sequels, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy, each won the Locus Award and were nominated for the Nebula Award. Provenance, published in 2017, and Translation State, published in 2023, are also set in the Imperial Radch universe. Leckie's first fantasy novel, The Raven Tower, was published in February 2019.
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- ↑ "2005 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- 1 2 "2006 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- 1 2 "2010 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. Archived from the original on 7 May 2011. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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- ↑ "The Nova Awards: Past Winners". Novacon. 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Banana Skins". Fancyclopedia. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Award Juries". Arthur C. Clarke Award. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
- ↑ "Claire Brialey". Strange Horizons. 27 September 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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