On Ooioiaa, a shrine of mummified saints stands in the way of an empire that treats it as clutter. Ann Leckie returns to the Imperial Radch with a standalone novel of faith, famine and unrest.
Readical Key Points
A standalone novel set in the Imperial Radch universe, according to the publisher.
Starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal; also reviewed in Booklist.
Hardcover from Orbit, published May 12, 2026; 368 pages.
Content note: riots, food shortages and indentured servitude.
The Radch has agreed to one last exception: a single man may still enter the Temporal Location of the Radiant Star and be preserved there as a living saint. That decision spreads through a city already short of food, cut off from imperial contact and edging toward riot. Leckie follows three people caught in it: a devout savant who pictures himself among the saints, a socialite whose easy life falls apart, and an indentured young man who sees a chance to get free.
This Orbit hardcover suits space opera readers who want politics and belief at the center of the story, whether or not they have read the Ancillary novels. Leckie writes empire from the ground up, through the people it has decided are small.
About the Author
Ann Leckie is the author of Ancillary Justice, which won the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and British Science Fiction Awards.
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