Like the author of today’s essay, the Ancillary series has become a near-annual read for me: lazy summery Januaries when I feel the need for something familiar, I revisit Breq and her quest for personal justice that becomes something much bigger than that. This current essay fulfils one of my ambitions for this journal: to publish an essay that explores this marvellous series. Moth Paulson looks at the question of “justice,” how Ann Leckie presents it in the empire of the Radch and how those ideas reflect contemporary issues in our own world. Even if you haven’t read the series (and I cannot praise them highly enough, but I know time is limited), the ideas examined here are worth reading and thinking about.