172 pages
English language
Published May 25, 2018
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah--its former owner (protector? friend?)--submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who's going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it's caught?"--provided by publisher.
These are all consistently good, at this point I feel like I should just say "refer back to my previous review".
Yet another good entry in the Murderbot series. I'm glad the author has started exploring more the topic of personhood in this brutal universe. I was really touched by the discussion between Mensah and Murderbot - "it kept me company" "without needing to engage" (i'm citing from memory) - seemingly banal bu acute description of the excessive use of media.
A great end to the first arc.
This volume started out a bit slow, but picked up considerably toward the middle and end. The action sequences in this book were superb. Looking forward to reading the next installment.
Matabot contra una corporación interestelar en una estación espacial para empresas.
Acaba incluso mejor de lo que suena.
In this section of the Murderbot series we have him interact with humans who know and care about him.
His hacking skills are finally challenged.
Making this the best installment since the first one.
Serious good fun, and not screwing around when it comes to direct address of self-ownership. Loving the series, and this one in particular.
Later: Who's got a comfort series? I've got a comfort series.
Realistic, gradual and sustained character growth is rare in novels. And yet, Murderbot has clearly grown in this fourth installation, which it reunites with many of the characters from the debut novel. Murderbot starts having and believing in its emotions and starts believing that relationships with people matter. Most of this novella is emotional work and it feels deeply satisfying after the first three books.
More weekend-scale binge reading! The hacking grows in magicality, but it's matched by equal growth in self-examination. All undeniably fun.
Verlässliche Serie. Den Plot hab ich bei keinem der vier Teile begriffen, aber eventuell war der auch egal. (Update: Beim zweiten Lesen ging es dann. Ich glaube, verwirrt hat mich vor allem, dass "the company" sich auf eine ganz bestimmte namenlose company bezieht und keineswegs auf eins der mit Namen genannten Unternehmen im Buch.)
I just sped through all four books of Martha Wells' Murderbot Diaries, and I enjoyed them immensely. It isn't often these days that I can find a series that I can completely lose myself in, that has both a great plot, great characters, and humor. There is a lot of wonderful, serious genre literature out there today, but sometimes you need a book that lets you escape, but escape with flair, and this is one of them. Murderbot is one of the most interesting cyborgs I've ever met; I hope to be able to follow its adventures again sometime.
Holy hell. That was the best one! Super intense yet hilarious, and that ending was fantastic. I even teared up a little. I can't wait for more Murderbot!
I dunno felt like it kind of petered out but it wasn't like actively bad or anything.
Really quite happy how this all turned out. Also very excited we'll be seeing a complete novel at some stage in 2020. This one really got deep into the conflicts Murderbot has with his new choices, whilst shoring up some of the definite positions he has about humanity and how he interacts & relates to this concept. Truly fantastic writing.
Classic MurderBot
