Dav Ito (they/them) reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
I'm not sure how I feel...
3 stars
is it weird that I can feel myself heavily identifying with the murderbot? it feels like it should be weird.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
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 “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
is it weird that I can feel myself heavily identifying with the murderbot? it feels like it should be weird.
it's hard to pull off a sardonic robot protagonist, and I think this did it
I haven't been so compelled to read since a teenager. Murderbot sucked me in completely.
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