ALL SYSTEMS RED: Martha Wells: 1 (Murderbot Diaries)

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Update January 2023 from vacation: Clearly, I was suffering from QuarantineBrain™ the first time I read this. Started and finished a couple of days. As to the writing itself, it alternates between engrossing, hilarious, heart-rending, and painfully accurate. You're going to identity with and relate to Murderbot so much that you'll find yourself (at least, if you're anything like me you will) also thinking of humans as an "other" during the course of your reading, as you mentally (or out-loud; no judgement if you're one of those people who exclaims aloud as you read; I rarely do, but this seems like an appropriate book series for that sort of behavior) shout at them to not do stupid things and just listen to their SecUnit, please! Love the 'Bot and want to join a re/read? Discuss the upcoming release? Nataliya and I lead a group: Non-Human Non-Binary: Partly organic, but designed and built without sexual characteristics and opting out of the whole business whenever it has to bring up gender in relation to itself. All bots, AI, and bot-human constructs are "it", including the emancipated "free" bots on Preservation. Also, is rather disgusted at the idea of getting human sexual organs. Hugo Awards". Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on April 2, 2018 . Retrieved August 20, 2018– via thehugoawards.org.

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor.” The production of human/bot constructs is just a more horrific twist, a mental slavery as well as a physical one. At least victims of contract labor are free to think their own thoughts. But we tell ourselves that constructs aren’t aware of their predicament. What SecUnit makes us realize is that this is not true; they are all aware of what they are and what’s been done to them. But the only choice they are ever offered is obedience or pain and death.” Brilliant, but Lazy: Surprisingly so given how much Murderbot actually accomplishes, but the fact is that it would much rather spend whatever available time it has watching vids.

I Know Mortal Kombat: Murderbot already knew how to fight as a SecUnit, but a large amount of Murderbot's ideas about tactics and stealth are inspired by action media it's watched. The novel reads a lot like the shorter adventures, especially at the start, and in a way it just feels like it's longer because there are more events taking place so it takes more words to tell what happened, rather than that the author set out to specifically "write a novel" as opposed to a novella -- which is nice, because the tone and style and everything remain beautifully consistent throughout the whole series -- but at the same time, the fact that it DOES spend more time on one plot and one group of characters means there is a chance to get a little more in-depth with various things and people, and that's nice too. Some stories/series are more suited to one type of writing or another, but I feel like with the Murderbot Diaries there is no wrong length. Whether you're sitting down for ten minutes or ten hours, you're going to get the same delightfully enjoyable experience out of these books. Just a Machine: Society’s view of SecUnits, and of constructs in general. It’s so pervasive even people from Preservation Alliance, where Bots are considered citizens, have to confront their biases about them.Liptak, Andrew (June 25, 2017). " All Systems Red chronicles the life of a robot that calls itself Murderbot". The Verge. Archived from the original on April 1, 2018 . Retrieved March 31, 2018. Tor.com (January 24, 2023). "Revealing System Collapse, a New Murderbot Novel From Martha Wells". Tor.com . Retrieved January 25, 2023.