2022 Reading Challenge: a Hugo Award Winner

[baronessekat]

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


It is a Security Unit, a biological and mechanical unit programed to provide protection to those who hire its services. But, having managed to override its governing controller, all it wants to do is avoid the crew of the scientific expedition its been assigned to and watch the entertainment serials its downloaded.

But things are going strangely - sections of maps are not filling in, another expedition has gone silent. It now must protect its humans, solve the mystery and hopefully get back to find out what happens next in the show its watching.

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Okay, I can totally see why people have been raving about the Murderbot books. I was gifted this audiobook and as things allow, I will look for the next in the series.



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Comments

[dicea]

This is a series that is really worth reading as a whole. It feels like five seasons of a cool sci-fi tv show that would probably be cancelled after the second season. If you keep going at least until you meet ART I think you'll fall into the world. The books are short but I've listened to the series at least three times already and I keep finding new things to enjoy. The worldbuilding is not handed to the reader on a platter, but collecting it though the experience left me finding it a very rich world. I consider these books on par with Becky Chambers' books for giving me something entertaining which is also full of healthy thoughts and constructive attitudes.