They tacked on a thirty-page preview of some other book, which inflated the page count dramatically. (Part of my problem with it was the fault of the publisher who did the ebook edition. It had some nice bits, but didn't really resolve anything, and it wasn't clear to me that all the remaining issues could really be tied up in the third volume. But while I liked Ancillary Justice quite a bit (it's the rare book I've voted for the Best Novel Hugo that's actually won), I thought Ancillary Mercy was very much a middle-book-in-a-trilogy, with all the problems that implies. The release of Ancillary Mercy generated a ton of buzz, to the point where, as I remarked on Twitter, I felt as if I were letting down some ill-defined "side" by not being more excited about it. The first of these, Ancillary Justice won a Hugo two years ago, and the second, Ancillary Sword should've won this past year, because I really didn't like the Three-Body Problem. The hot SF release of the fall is Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy, concluding the Imperial Radch trilogy.
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