Artificial Condition
The Murderbot Diaries
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- 12,99 $
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- 12,99 $
Description de l’éditeur
A USA Today bestseller
The "I love Murderbot!" —Ann Leckie
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Wells follows the classically tight adventure pacing of All Systems Red with a slightly disorienting shift to self-exploration, making intense moments out of data dumps and matter-of-fact narrative out of fights to the death. Murderbot, a sentient artificial intelligence, is on the lam, hopping cargo transports and hacking security cameras on a quest to discover the truth of its own origin story as the villain of a massacre. Sounds like a rollicking time which it is, but not in the way one might expect. The real discovery is not about the horrific events Murderbot may have participated in some 35,000 hours ago, but the bonds it never intended to form with beings who were no part of its plan. The most endearing is ART, a wacky cross between 2001's HAL and Mycroft Holmes, who plays to Murderbot's Sherlock with acerbic and infinite superiority. The broadening of Murderbot's experience, however mundane, "make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person," and the dizzying, inarguable plenitude of personhood is what this dense novella most intimately explores. There's plenty here to entertain the many fans of the first novella.
Avis des utilisateurs
Fun read
Fun read, but short with not much complexity. Keeps good pace with story and action. Laced with humour good enough to laugh out loud. Best synopsis is how to interface with others when you don’t want to, but feel you have to in order to learn more about yourself.
Artificial Condition
$13.99 for 180 pages of sci fi reading are you kidding me. Well you suckered me in buying the book. Won’t be buying another. For $13.99 I expect minimum at least 375 pages.
Just not worth buying what should be a novella at $3.99.
Phenomenal
It’s been a long time since I’ve read a series this engaging. I bought and read them all over a weekend, and started reading them a second time as soon as I was done. I would recommend them to anyone and everyone.