Collider argues that Ann Leckie’s 2013 novel Ancillary Justice is a strong candidate for a major streaming space-opera adaptation, amid continued demand for ambitious science-fiction television. The article presents it as an overlooked alternative to established franchises such as Dune and Foundation, with a premise that could offer both large-scale world-building and an unusual central perspective.

The novel follows Breq, the surviving consciousness of the destroyed starship Justice of Toren, once an artificial intelligence controlling thousands of human “ancillary” bodies. Set across two timelines, it begins when Breq rescues her former lieutenant Seivarden Vendaai on an isolated ice planet, while revealing events from roughly 1,000 years earlier and the ship’s destruction 19 years before the main story.