Our “free,” rogue Murderbot goes back to where it all went wrong.
In this book we explore his ability to move about in free society, keeping to the shadows, and to learn how he came to hack his own governor module and how he became involved in the massacre that has haunted him throughout the last book.
I keep imagining Peter Weller in Robocop. Our guy is messed up, self-aware, childlike and dangerous as hell.
To investigate his past, he boards a cargo/research ship that is about to depart without a crew. AI’s are so advanced that, when the ship is not being used by its human crew, it goes off on routine cargo runs to generate revenue. The AI of this ship is well tuned to interacting with humans and it allows Murderbot aboard so it could have somebody to talk to.
Their interactions are what makes this book work for me.
Lots of fun here.
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