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reviewed 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, …

Got through it quickly, not sure it got through to me

Didn't realize how short these books were; I breezed through this in an evening. I'm not sure I'm hooked on the series, the worldbuilding felt perfunctory and I couldn't tell if I was intended to empathize with Murderbot, or the humans it was associated with. It does seem perfect for a serialized TV show though; maybe this is the ideal format for the series.