Uh! I love this character! This is the 2nd book in the murderbot books and the main character, who I realise now doesn't have a name (nor gender as it's a bot) is so fun to read.
The murderbot is so dry and grumpy and so different from previous characters I've read in sci-fi.
The first book definitely works as a stand alone, and although there's a self contained story in this second book, it definitely carries through a decent number of references to the earlier story that I'd not recommend reading this on it's own.
Since the books are only around 160 pages, I'm moving right on to the next installment and looking forward to it already.
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you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
if it needed me to watch the show it wanted, then it couldn't get angry and destroy my brain. Also, I wanted to watch the show, too.
"Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on."
Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.
I leaned against the wall. If I had been human, I would have rolled my eyes. Though if I had been human, I might have been stupid enough to think it was a good idea.
I probably should have been doing that from the beginning, but you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot.
Others I've read in the "The Murderbot Diaries" series: