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Date read: May 29, 2025
The Murderbot Diaries
1. All Systems Red
2. Artificial Condition - Paperback | Kindle
2.5. Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy
3. Rogue Protocol
4. Exit Strategy
4.5. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory
5. Network Effect
6. Fugitive Telemetry
7. System Collapse
Martha Wells
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.Thoughts on Artificial Condition: After the shenanigans on-planet, Murderbot is finding itself (and new media to watch) on a trip to various ports around the galaxies. Admittedly, this isn't exactly a trip for fun. Murderbot is making its stealthy way to investigate if it is, in fact, a Murderbot who went all murder-y and ended a whole lot of humans during its previous contract.
Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
Before it can start its investigation, however, it procures transport (via asking politely) on a ship that seems ideal. Except...well, the ship is a research vessel with a powerful AI controlling it. And it knows that Murderbot is not a typical SecUnit. Fortunately for our intrepid explorer, ART has ideas on how to further conceal itself (and its hacked module) from those who wouldn't be happy to have a rogue SecUnit running around (which is everyone except the Preservation Aux crew, it would seem).
Anywho. Murderbot makes some necessary cosmetic changes (to make itself, ugh, blend in better with humans), starts its investigation, and ends up running security for a group of people who desperately need it. Again, Murderbot might not LIKE humans, but it gets pretty darn protective of those in its care. So it does what a rogue SecUnit with a modicum of morality would do and fights to keep its charges safe while investigating a coverup.
As anti-social as Murderbot is, it's funny how it keeps making friends and doing favors for individuals. I'm a couple books into the series and I keep wondering if those connections its making are going to have a gloriously positive impact down the road. *thumbs up*
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