Ancillary Justice (2013)

Breq was once a warship's intelligence, spread across a vessel and the human bodies an empire forced into its service. Now confined to one body, she carries a very different experience of attention, loss and responsibility. Leckie makes artificial personhood inseparable from imperial power: this mind has been both an instrument of domination and something capable of resisting it. Begin the Imperial Radch trilogy here for a demanding, rewarding change in perspective.