And don't we all have that? Our logical processing brains and then the part of our brains that jump in front of a bus to push someone out of the way because we just. Like, Breq/One Esk has her AI consciousness and then her sub sub sub sub consciousness from before she was ancillaried. Fallon: I dunno Jay-it says at one point that they'd tried with dead bodies and failed. As if things aren't hard enough to keep track of as it stands. Plus, I like the potential of a dual consciousness (two distinct personalities) in addition to the multiple branches of one consciousness. The conversation in which Strigan eggs her on about a life that was denied certainly points in that direction. Jay Dayrit, Editorial Operations Manager: I am inclined to believe Breq is a reanimated corpse. Don't sacrifice yourself for nothing.' Fallon: Yes, but Breq doesn't think much of Strigan's liberation theology. Jason Kehe, Associate Editor: Then there's that line Strigan says to Breq: 'Live the life that was denied you. But also in that scene, we see Awn being tender and defensive of her ancillaries, which not everyone is. That horrible, horrible scene where the new ancillary is jacked into the matrix, I think Leckie makes a point of saying that, not only are the ancillaries alive, they are conscious. So Is Breq's Body a Reanimated Corpse? Sarah Fallon, Senior Editor: I don't think so. We'll tackle the book's final third next week.

Read up on our theorizing, then join us in the comments for further discussion. Aatr's tits! Luckily, there's five of us and all of you to help. Amid the excessively voweled names and shifting POVs and multiple timelines is a political plot so many-sided you'd need a degree in IR (you know, interstellar relations) just to parse the gist. The more we read of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, the less it seems we know.

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