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English language
Published Oct. 12, 2023
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...
Okay, I went from thinking Murderbot was kind of okay to being a huge Murderbot fan.
My only gripe is that this series of books so far does sort of seem short. Really looking forward to reading the full novel.
good in a non-ideal, fast-paced way, but short.
It's been too long since I've been addicted to a series of books, so I'm really happy to have found the Murderbot series. My only regret is that I am now starting Exit Strategy, the last (so far) of the funny, occasionally poignant adventure series.
Another fun adventure with my favorite Murderbot. I also loved ART and am sad to see it go. I didn't think the plot was as compelling in this one, but I still had a really good time.
These novellas are really quite enticing. I really love the way that you know Murderbot is a construct, that he has these conflicting views of what humanity is and how he fits into that. As a consequence the feelings and expectations you have for him and how you want him to fit in, but have to keep reminding yourself that he is indeed a construct. This friction really makes the story enticing and interesting.
This story was probably a bit better than All Systems Red, but perhaps that's just because we now understand Murderbot quite a bit more than we did initially. It's somewhat a pity that these are just novellas an not a fully fledged book, but we know #4 is coming and we'll at least be able to finish the story in a larger and deeper scape that it deserves.
Martha Wells' writing style makes this a very fun book to read!
Will read the rest, the shy-cynical-fearless tone continues to resonate so well.
Fun new adventure with our anti-hero Murderbot as he grapples with what it means to be free.
Novella #2 of the Murderbot Diaries, because much like popcorn, I couldn't stop at just one and had to immediately purchase the second. IMurderbot has obtained a kind of autonomy from Company ownership and plans to return to a planet on which it was previously stationed in order to investigate an incident from its past. It had been told that its governor unit was hacked, causing it to go rogue and murder an entire team of humans, after which its memory was wiped by the Company in order to erase and reset the unit (cheaper than destroying it). This, it believes, is the reason it hacked its governor unit to ensure this could never happen again. However, since its memory was wiped, it isn't sure about any of this ... and in this second novella, Murderbot returns to the scene of the crime to try and learn the actual truth …
Novella #2 of the Murderbot Diaries, because much like popcorn, I couldn't stop at just one and had to immediately purchase the second. IMurderbot has obtained a kind of autonomy from Company ownership and plans to return to a planet on which it was previously stationed in order to investigate an incident from its past. It had been told that its governor unit was hacked, causing it to go rogue and murder an entire team of humans, after which its memory was wiped by the Company in order to erase and reset the unit (cheaper than destroying it). This, it believes, is the reason it hacked its governor unit to ensure this could never happen again. However, since its memory was wiped, it isn't sure about any of this ... and in this second novella, Murderbot returns to the scene of the crime to try and learn the actual truth of its history. Along the way it befriends a rather bored transport ship, takes a security contract with a dangerously naive group of researchers, and of course continues to watch as many TV shows as it can manage to download....
“You can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.”
MurderBot is just the best.
