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A review by witchywilds
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
4.0
Why waste your time reading reviews? Everybody loves this series. What's your excuse? "I don't wanna waste my time in case I don't like it." I hear you whining. Well my friend I have news for you, this is a novella! The whole book is like 140 pages, you can read it in one sitting if you wanted, grow up.
Jokes aside, this is my new favorite series easily. It's set me on a weird robot/sci-fi binge now and I can't get enough, I love Murderbot! (The series, I'd never refer to SecUnit with it's personal name unless given permission.)
In this story, as you probably already know, we follow a SecUnit that refers to itself as Murderbot. Murderbot is a bot/human construct (think our definition of a cyborg except they were created kinda like clones in Star Wars. Got it? Good!) that is half human, half robot, all sass, introvert, and melodrama.
SecUnit (as I'll refer to it from now on) has recently freed itself from the control of it's governor module and thus, the Company. Since then it has 1) chosen not to go on a murderous rampage and kill stupid smelly humans, 2) downloaded tons of media and consumed roughly 35,000 hours of it, and 3) has continued to do its job despite having free will now.
During this job we (and SecUnit) meet up with Dr. Mensah, Ratthi, Arada, Overse, Pin-Lee, and Gurathin, it's clientsand eventual friends. Some things go down that I won't spoil for you here but things get a lot more exciting for our bored SecUnit very quickly and come to a (in my opinion) very satisfying conclusion but also cliffhanger?
Do yourself a favor and read this ASAP. I want it at the top of your TBR immediately! You'll totally get the hype once you've finished your read!
Jokes aside, this is my new favorite series easily. It's set me on a weird robot/sci-fi binge now and I can't get enough, I love Murderbot! (The series, I'd never refer to SecUnit with it's personal name unless given permission.)
In this story, as you probably already know, we follow a SecUnit that refers to itself as Murderbot. Murderbot is a bot/human construct (think our definition of a cyborg except they were created kinda like clones in Star Wars. Got it? Good!) that is half human, half robot, all sass, introvert, and melodrama.
SecUnit (as I'll refer to it from now on) has recently freed itself from the control of it's governor module and thus, the Company. Since then it has 1) chosen not to go on a murderous rampage and kill stupid smelly humans, 2) downloaded tons of media and consumed roughly 35,000 hours of it, and 3) has continued to do its job despite having free will now.
During this job we (and SecUnit) meet up with Dr. Mensah, Ratthi, Arada, Overse, Pin-Lee, and Gurathin, it's clients
Do yourself a favor and read this ASAP. I want it at the top of your TBR immediately! You'll totally get the hype once you've finished your read!