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 Ann Leckie, in her novel //Ancillary Justice//, decided that knowing the genders of the various characters wasn't important to the story, only their roles, and so made the conscious decision to omit them. In the whole trilogy she only reveals the gender of one character, and it's not even the hero/heroine. In fact, Leckie twists a lot of things she believes we don't need to know. For example, the heroine (let's call her female for brevity) begins as a heroine, but later begins to resemble an anti-heroine, and thesetwo antipodes are frequently twisting until we don't know how to label our character - and only then do we realise that Leckie is trying to break free of such things as labels and roles. How does she do this? She sticks to the facts and anything superfluous gets discarded - things like gender. //Ancillary Justice// was the first novel ever to win the top five major SF awards in the same year. Ann Leckie, in her novel //Ancillary Justice//, decided that knowing the genders of the various characters wasn't important to the story, only their roles, and so made the conscious decision to omit them. In the whole trilogy she only reveals the gender of one character, and it's not even the hero/heroine. In fact, Leckie twists a lot of things she believes we don't need to know. For example, the heroine (let's call her female for brevity) begins as a heroine, but later begins to resemble an anti-heroine, and thesetwo antipodes are frequently twisting until we don't know how to label our character - and only then do we realise that Leckie is trying to break free of such things as labels and roles. How does she do this? She sticks to the facts and anything superfluous gets discarded - things like gender. //Ancillary Justice// was the first novel ever to win the top five major SF awards in the same year.
  
-Sticking to what's important pays dividends.+Sticking to what's important is, erm, important, and it pays dividends.
  
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