4.5 stars From Goodreads: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid – a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as […]
I Was Only 97% Certain That This Meeting Was a Trap.
I have been on such a streak of good books that it is getting harder to stop and write reviews. I am now 4 reviews behind, and the second installment in the Murderbot Diaries is jumping ahead of Hunger, Kindred, The Hate U Give and Ancillary Sword. I have all those reviews started. I just need to stop reading long enough to write them. I adored the first Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red. I felt like I had never identified more with a fictional character. […]
True Equality Is When Robots Can Be Just As Apathetic As Humans
I don’t think I can add much to this one beyond what has already been said. The narrator is a SecUnit belonging to a large powerful corporation that owns the rights to various planets and rents out survey rights and equipment at exorbitant prices while only investing in the cheapest technology themselves. The narrator has hacked its governor module, and can function independently though all it wants is to be left alone and watch its stories. When things start going wrong on the mission, Murderbot, […]
Murderbot needs a blankie!
I was so charmed by this little novella. People (including our very own emmalita) have been giving it great reviews, but I don’t normally get very emotionally involved in shorter pieces of fiction. I was emotionally involved with this one after about fifteen pages. All Systems Red is the first novella of four (the rest set to be released by the end of the year) in the Murderbot Diaries series. Our narrator is Murderbot. He calls himself that ironically. In reality, he is a SecUnit, an […]