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Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?
Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading…
Why read it?
1 author picked Exit Strategy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Aside from not being an engineered professional killer addicted to soap operas, I really related to Martha Wells’s Murderbot.
My head does not follow the centreline of “normal people,” and Martha Wells delivers an anti-hero who resonates superbly. I was utterly sucked into Murderbot’s struggle to reconcile an internal conflict between off-centre emotional responses and the expectations of those “normal people” and never falling back into the cop-out of “fixing” Murderbot to be “normal.” Oh, and it's a cracking good story, as well.
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Prisons are at bursting point. Criminals are released early and the guilty walk free from courts. The Justice system is in a state of collapse and no-one is safe.
i4Ni is created to solve the problem. i4Ni is a humanoid which, according to its 'creator' Jules Von Beck, will serve…
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