Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie Orbit Release Date: October 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-24668-2 For those who may not know, Ancillary Mercy is the third book in Ann Leckie’s brilliant Imperial Radch space opera trilogy. The first book, Ancillary Justice, was published in 2013 and promptly won the Hugo Award, the Nebula […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.