Here we find the titular android settling into the uncomfortable novelty of working with – not in the forced service of – humans. The 176-page novella is set between the five novellas of the All Systems Red series and the novel Network Effect. So why are we fawning over a grouchy, ungendered hybrid of human neural tissue and integrated AI combat weapons?įugitive Telemetry, the latest instalment, only deepens the devotion. I have to sheepishly put my hand up as well. “I might have a little bit of a thing for a robot,” wrote Jason Kehe, a culture critic at Wired. “I love Murderbot!” was sci-fi writer Ann Leckie’s take. Writers and reviewers are open about their feelings for the eponymous protagonist. Many of the books in Martha Wells’s series have won (or been shortlisted for) Nebula, Hugo, Locus and other awards. WHO loves Murderbot? We all love Murderbot.
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