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finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tordotcom)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

Reread this after getting an ebook copy for free from Tor a while back (thanks, Tor!) It's a neatly packaged little story about a robot who hacks its own systems for independence: not to kill all humans (though it could if it wanted to) but just to be left alone.