Our sardonic SecUnit decided to return to the mining planet where a prior incident culminated in her self-christening as Murderbot, with the intention to investigate the real cause of the said incident. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.I received an advanced reading copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.Īn awesome sequel to All Systems Red, Artificial Condition pumps up the fun and action.īefore I continue, I maintain that our genderless robotic main protagonist sounded female in my mind and hence, I will refer to it as she. Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid - a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as 'Murderbot.' Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern.

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans. Banks' Culture novels.Īll Systems Red tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries.

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