Translation State by Ann Leckie

Author: Ann LeckiePublisher: Orbit BooksHardcover: 432 pagesPrinting: 1stISBN: 978-0316289719Release Date: June 6, 2023Signing Date: June 6, 2023 Note: Signed on tip-in bound into book Book Description: The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author. "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." —John Scalzi  Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presger and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something else isn't "optimal behavior". I's the type of behavior that results in elimination.  But Qven rebels. And in doing so, their path collides with those of two others. Enae, a reluctant