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Book 2 of the Murderbot Diaries
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Beginning directly after the events in All Systems Red, Murderbot hitches a ride on the intelligent transport ART to the mining installation where its mass murder event took place. It needs to reconcile its past before it can decide its future. But visiting the installation means pretending to be an augmented human security consultant. Luckily ART has some ideas to help it with that.
Murderbot and ART are both sarcastic and start off rubbing each other the wrong way, making their interactions very entertaining to read. You get a great feel for the concerns Murderbot has about getting caught while trying to investigate its past. It doesn’t know how to act like a human, so it’s fun watching it help the young humans who don’t know what they’re doing either. More of the wider world is hinted at, with other corporations that put profits over people.
It’s a novella, so it’s on the short side, but the story packs a punch.
=> If you’re reading the short stories as well as the novellas, here is where you read “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy”. This story centres on ART/Perihelion’s crew and a mission they’re on as they wonder why their intelligent transport seems different after it’s last unmanned cargo run.
Otherwise, the next book in the series is Rogue Protocol
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