Compare Translation State with another since fiction work with similar themes, such as Perdido Street Station by China Miéville, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, or Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy.

Ann Leckie utilizes a lot of different pronouns for the characters in Translation State. How does the confusion produced affect the characters? How does it affect the reading experience?

Why does Qven switch from they/them to e/em pronouns part of the way through the story? What does this say about the story’s themes?