All Systems Red

I LOVED All Systems Red. Murderbot might be my new favorite character in all of Sci-Fi. I had to read this for my first grad school class at Emerson, and it was an overall winner. Highly recommended if you like Sci-Fi, or if you like character-driven stories that are quick-paced, with decent action and good suspense. I will most definitely be adding the other Murderbot books to my TBR pile.

I read this a couple weeks ago and could tell you approximately nothing about the plot! I remember having a nice time reading it? It's short, which is to its credit. There is some stuff about untrustworthy corporations, and the main character is a robot whose robot-ness seems to be a metaphor for neurodivergence of some kind? I don't know. It never really came together but also, hey, it was short.

Murderbot just wants to watch TV, but work keeps interrupting. Work that becomes increasingly mysterious and dangerous and - perhaps most shockingly to our protagonist - something to care about doing well, as events unfold.

Comical, fast-paced and fun, with a delightful protagonist and a plot best left to be discovered as the pages turn, this was tremendous fun and exactly the sort of thing I needed right now.

This was nice. Extremely pulp, but managed to get at some larger ideas.

I originally abandoned this book, but forced my way through a second reading for a book club. I seem to be in the minority with this view, but I found this novella to be unbelievably boring, and I can't see how it has won multiple awards. The main character is, as far as I can tell, an introverted cyborg which likes to watch TV, surrounded by a bunch of squabbling humans who don't seem to know what to do about it. There's no development for any of the humans and the ending is disappointing. The hype overpromises, the book underdelivers.