Like Murderbot, you'll find the escape soothing enough to help you deal with, as it likes to call us, all the stupid humans. An Amazon's Best of the Year So Far Pick Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR Book Riot Polygon. So if you appreciated that video that Prime Minister Arden shot at home after putting her toddler to bed, try the Murderbot Diaries next. WINNER of the 2021 Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Mensah, leader of her planetary council, feels an awful lot at this moment in time like Jacinda Arden in space. Side note: Murderbot's steadfast human supporter Dr. For that reason, despite the press surrounding Network Effect promising otherwise, it's helpful to have read the first two books of the series before tackling this one. Network Effect brings Murderbot back in touch with ART (which stands for 'Asshole Research Transport,' the hilariously sentient transport vessel from volume two), and adventures ensue. (That sound you just heard was all of Gen X crying out, 'I feel seen!') Sure, there's lots of names and planets and technical stuff, but you can let those wash over you. But instead of going around killing people, all it really wants to do is sit at home and watch entertainment serials. It's about a murderous robot who hacks its own governor module and turns rogue. Readers who haven't found a science-fiction story to their liking before: I know we nerds keep saying this, but you really need to try this one.

That Network Effect also features an interplanetary setting in which corporate interests have taken over seemingly everything and the good guys are trying to fight back is just icing on the space cake. Science-fiction fans have fallen wildly in love with the narrative voice of these books about a robot whose struggles are a not-so-subtle metaphor for what it's like to live with severe social anxieties. After four novellas in her Murderbot Diaries series, College Station-based science-fiction writer Martha Wells now offers a novel-length installment about the most endearing violent rogue AI you'll ever meet.

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