Sad fact that occurred to me this morning: if ever there is a high-budget long-form screen adaptation of the Imperial Radch trilogy (eg, a 3- or 6-season netflix or HBO series), and it sticks 100% true to the character descriptions in the books as written, reactionaries will pitch a fit about "woke" revisionism because characters explicitly written as having dark skin will be played by black actors. (To say nothing of male actors using "she" pronouns, zomg.)
Related (cw birdsite): https://twitter.com/izs/status/945180366721073154?lang=en
Bonus if this casting was used: Aasif Mandvi and Pedro Pascale would have some steamy romance scenes. I think we all deserve that.
Also, maybe if it was a hit, we'd get a prequel series to tell the story of the galaxy class badass who kicked so much Radchai ass that one of their victims was beatified after being beheaded, before ultimately being ancilliaried as Justice of Toren 1 Esq 19 when their planet was annexed.
(Watch the icon Breq holds dear, goes back for when the ship is blowing up. THAT'S FUCKING BREQ. "It's a Radchai saint". "She looks just like you." "No, the saint is the other one, the one getting beheaded.")