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Apr 12, 2018LucasHill rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Sometimes, the best thing about a book is that it is short. Altogether, this novella took me about three hours. I disliked most of that experience. SecBot (which has privately named itself MurderBot), is a cyborg that is contracted to provide security to a team of humans (including one "augmented" human) surveying a planet for an evil corporation whose only characteristic seems to be criminally tight purse strings. The team is being chased by another shadowy group. MurderBot has a past it's ashamed of. It spends its alone time feeding its media addiction. It speaks and thinks wryly and sarcastically, and in a strangely anachronistic manner. It does its best to hide from the others on the team, which the author reminds us on nearly every page. MurderBot is irritating. The human members of the expedition are indistinguishable from each other, save for the leader, who most willingly sees the humanity in MurderBot. This story may be an allegory for slavery. It definitely is cobbled together with scraps from other sci-fi stories. By the end, I just didn't care for any of it..