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

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com) 4 stars

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

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …

An old friend gave me a series box-set as a gift, so it would be churlish to criticize. Actually I enjoyed it completely. Breezy and amusing. But as with the Scalzi I read last year, this one too bears the heavy imprint of SF TV. How many prose redactions of Firefly can niche SF bear? But then I suppose SF prose has been the R&D wing of visual media for a very long time.