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Zubon comments on February 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Zubon 04 October 2014 10:22:39PM 0 points [-]

Ancillary Justice is quite good, and it went on to win the Nebula and Hugo awards for the year.

In addition to AI and identity theory, there is also quite a bit about gender and language, as the dominant empire has no gender in its language and little to no dimorphism, either physically or culturally. The AI tends to guess (with mixed results) when dealing with other languages and cultures.