Martha Wells Is Having too Much Fun Here...

Highly recommended. Martha Wells appears to have had an illegally large amount of fun writing this novel. Here a newly-created instantiation of Murderbot sets out on what is supposed to be a suicide mission: Martha Wells: Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=sBK_yAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:1250229863: 'I initiated a connection and put a freeze on the SecUnit���s governor module so nothing I did would accidentally trigger it. I could tell I had the Unit���s attention, that it knew somebody had initiated contact. I sent it an old company identifier.... After four long seconds, it replied: "System Unit Acknowledge: Identify?"... I said, "I���m a rogue SecUnit, working with the armed transport who is pursuing this ship with the intention of retrieving endangered clients. I am currently present as killware inside the explorer���s SecSystem." It didn���t reply. I can tell you as a SecUnit that under these circumstances this is just about the last thing you expect to hear. Also, SecUnits normally aren���t allowed to communicate with each other so it would be reluctant to drop protocol. I said, "There���s no protocol for any of this. Just talk to me". There was another three second pause. "I don���t know what to say". That was encouraging. (I���m actually not being sarcastic here���the last time I���d tried to talk a SecUnit into helping me, it had just gotten more determined to kill me. But it had been a CombatUnit and they���re a--holes.) I said, "Three of my clients are inside the compartment nearest you. Have you seen these others?"... #books #highlyrecommended #sciencefiction #2020-07-16