Week 1: Frankenstien by Mary Shelly (#6 points) Week 2: Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (#6 points) Week 3: A Wild Sheep Chase (#6 points) Week 3_1: Confessions by Kanae Minato (#5 points) Week 4: Annihilation (#6 points) Week 6: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (#6 points) Week 7: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (#6 points) Week Eight: Contemporary Fantasy - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Suzanna Clark (# 6 points) Week Nine: New Frontier - The Martian by Andrew Weir (# 5 points) Week Ten: The Fiction of Ideas - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuinn (# 5 points) Week Eleven: Cyberpunk and Steampunk - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (# 6 points) Week Thirteen: Literature and Speculation - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (# 6 points) Week Fourteen: Speculative Satire - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (# 6 points) Week Fifteen: Future Tense - Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (# 5 points) Total Point from reading: 80 Attendance: 13 < 2 absences, o
This week, I read Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. Overall, It was hard to read because there are a lot of characters in a story. The relationships between the characters keep increasing and get complicated, so sometimes it was a bit hard to follow the story. The view of the world and the characters the writer created are very fresh and unfamiliar as well. The new words like Fleet, Ancillaries, Nilt, and Radch pop up from the first page of this novel. At first, I needed time to get used to this new world, but at some point, I found myself empathizing with the speaker and experiencing the vast universe. A first-person narrator of this story is artificial intelligence, Breq, who still thinks that there are a lot of incomprehensible behaviors humans do, although it has been living 19 years with a human body. Breq must follow the command of her creator, the Radch’s monarch, but by a series of events, now she acts by her own free will. It can be read just as the error of artific