ART is a bored but sentient and highly intelligent system with the ability to control its environment in addition to initiative and freedom to act and is looking for some diversion on an otherwise stultifying journey. This time it finds itself stuck with ART who is not just a mindless system running a transport. During that trip, Murderbot had done a lot of thinking and had a plan about what it wanted to do. Its first transit was with a transport bot in exchange for access to the hours of media – Murderbot prefers a serial called Sanctuary Moon – it had used to relieve its boredom while doing a half assed version of its SecUnit job. To do that, it has to journey back to the moon and search for answers. Murderbot has only scraps of memory about its dark past but it wants to know more. No, it saved its humans), it was bought by one of those humans and is no longer controlled by anyone – something most other humans would get all screamy about if they knew because there’s nothing that frightens humans like a rogue SecUnit. No, it’s not bitter that humans rarely ask for much less listen to its security suggestions.Īfter its most recent Company contract went spectacularly wrong (Not its fault.

Because humans are always doing stupid stuff that can get them killed. But Murderbot hacked its own governor module and thinks for itself even though it still (pretty much … most of the time) obeyed the commands of the various humans it had been hired to protect – from outsiders and themselves. Mix a little cloned human material with a lot of augmented mechanization, install a governor module to allow it to be controlled then load it with lots of built in weapons and the strength to rip humans apart like tissue paper and you have a SecUnit. Murderbot – a name it gave itself after being involved years ago in a massacre of the humans it was supposed to be guarding on a remote mining moon – is a SecUnit. But then I started to try and tamp down my expectations because … could it match the first installment with Murderbot’s deadpan, sarcastic, leave-me-alone humor? I think I actually did a wiggle, happy dance in my chair when I got the notification that I’d been given an ARC. I’m well and truly hooked on “The Murderbot Diaries” and so thankful that I didn’t have to wait a year for the next installment.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…īut you may have noticed that for a terrifying murderbot I fuck up a lot. 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. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. It has a dark past-one in which a number of humans were killed.

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