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I love this book more each time I read it, and I notice more each time I read it, too.

If you've enjoyed the Murderbot saga so far, you'll almost certainly enjoy this one too.

Athene sets up a city based on Plato's Republic and peoples it with freed slave children, worker robots, and men and women from up and down the timeline. About five years in, Socrates shows up and starts asking some difficult questions.

If you haven't read Plato, that's OK. I haven't, either, and I still understood the book.

One warning: there are a couple scenes of sexual violence, and Jo Walton doesn't shy away from it.

Now I need to read the sequels.

@iamViolet I found myself disappointed in the ending. It's one of those Stephen King quirks where he'll write 900 pages of great fiction and then—because he had no idea how to end it—spin the "Wheel o' Conclusions" and let me down in the last 10 pages. I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I'll read it again.

This was my first Fforde book, and it's not gonna be the last.

Gad, I love Murderbot.

I got about 100 pages in but it just wasn't working for me.

I can't tell if all these comma splices slipped past the editor(s) or if they're an intentional part of the style.

A short novel with a lot to think about.

This was good. Great character development, interesting ideas, unforeseen consequences—Becky Chambers is a great writer.