After surviving a bloody encounter with pirates, Murderbot and Amena - snarky teenage daughter of Murderbot’s friend and ostensible owner, Dr. But it turns out there was indeed a key piece of unfinished business to revisit, one involving ART (the Murderbot-coined acronym for “Asshole Research Transport”), the powerful artificial intelligence controlling the research transport ship Perihelion whom we’d met in Artificial Condition. I was confused, too… since Exit Strategy had, or so it seemed, brought the arc of our protagonist - Murderbot, a bad-ass part-robot, part-human Security Unit that has managed to override its governor module and develop independence - to a satisfying conclusion. Having enjoyed the Murderbot Diaries novellas All Systems Red (2017), Artificial Condition (2018), Rogue Protocol (2018), and Exit Strategy (2018), I was thrilled when Network Effect, a full-length novel, appeared. For Josh Glenn’s Hadron Age Sci-Fi 75 list (a work in progress), click here. One in a series of posts about the 75 best sf adventures published during the genre’s Hadron Age era (from 2004–2023, according to HILOBROW’s periodization schema).
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