Martha Wells’ endearingly grumpy cyborg Security Unit Murderbot returns with a vengeance in Rogue Protocol, the third novella in the MURDERBOT DIARIES series. Love the 'Bot and want to join a re/read? Discuss the upcoming release? Nataliya and I lead a group:Ĥ.5 stars! Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: I had to laugh out loud at 'Bot's response to it, a couple of times, though: 'Fuck me.' Bot's been watching too many trashy serials. Reading the books more closely together, I get the emotional changes in Murderbot over time, and appreciate the Miki storyline better. If you think you enjoy Wells, I highly encourage you to give her other books a try, except she's a tricky one, and many of her books are very, very different from one another from the vaguely neo-Edwardian England The Death of the Necromancer to the matriarchal fantasy world of the Raksura. If you like 'Bot and bots, you may also enjoy A Closed and Common Orbit (it really does stand alone), another A.I.

I'm glad she's finally getting some long-overdue popular recognition (as opposed to her early Hugo-Neb nominated works), because I'd like to see her financially secure enough to keep dreaming up worlds. Wells always manages to tap me in the feels along with engaging the brain-pan. All that said, I really enjoyed it, and it held up to a second read quite well. I also felt questions raised about the amount of processing 'Bot was doing at certain points. than other characterizations (thinking of Sea of Rust here). I'm still not convinced of 'Bot's logic circuits (mild mid-plot spoiler: didn't 'Bot ever watch serials were people double-crossed? even when limited to security concerns, but do think 'Bot is a much better A.I. The situation gave Murderbot insight into another kind of AI-human relationship, but plotting felt fairly familiar. I enjoyed it, but I don't know that it covered much new ground. Now I was looking at 90 percent, possibly 95 percent.' This was going to be even more annoying than I had anticipated, and I had anticipated a pretty high level of annoyance, maybe as high as 85 percent. 'When I called it a pet robot, I honestly thought I was exaggerating. Unfortunately, it means integrating itself into an exploration team that already includes an A.I.: In this installment, 'Bot is heading to a 'terraforming' installation abandoned by the corporation Gra圜ris, hoping to find data for the fight between Gra圜ris and Dr. As we all do, really, but I guess I expect more from a heartless killing machine. 'Bot is a little more experienced, but honestly is making some familiar mistakes. Murderbot returns for a third and autumnal installment. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute.

It really thought its humans were its friends, because that's how they treated it. 'Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness.

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