All Systems Red by Martha WellsMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
All Systems Red, Martha Wells, 2017
The first novella in the science fiction Murderbot series and written in the first tense from the perspective of a security android named "Murderbot." It is the winner of the 2018 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella.
The story itself is simple and tidy. A group of scientists plus Murderbot is on one side of an alien planet, and on the other side, a set of different scientists. Something goes wrong for the second group, and it is up to the first to figure out what happened before the same thing happens to them, too.
It's not all robot fights and space murder. We get a story of a partly-organic, mostly-robotic security guard's (SecUnit) self-discovery journey. Sulky, cynically sarcastic, yet comically witty dry humor are some words that can describe the writing.
I would probably read the next installment in the series.
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