Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) in Do Better: SFF without Sexual Violence

Nov 26, 2018 Beige rated it it was amazing

Shelves: zz-buddy-read, favourites, zread-1-scifi

05/2025 - Re-read. Still my favourite in the series 🩶

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11/2018 review

Oh this was right up my alley and contained everything I could have hoped for and more. I can't wait for a full length novel in the future!!!

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May 27, 2019 Silvana rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mine-mine-mine, short-story-novelette-novella, novella, z-sff-2019-female-challenge, z-hugo-nominees-2019, z-sl-laser-challenge-2019, z-sff-2019-reading-challenge, female-nonbinary-authors, sci-fi

I guess I wanted more than I could have from this sequel. I enjoyed the worldbuilding bits about different types of bots and how they were operating - the interaction with ART was a high point - but the side plot was distracting and the conclusion rather anticlimactic. 3.5 stars rounded down. I hope Rogue Protocol is better.

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Aug 22, 2020 Kristenelle rated it really liked it

Murderbot is lovable, relatable, and funny. This story was really sweet and interesting. My only complaint is that there was a lot of description and much of it was hard to imagine.

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Jun 06, 2018 Princessjay rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller-horror, sci-fi-fantasy, mystery

3.5 STARS

An interim step in murderbot's progress.
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Jul 28, 2019 Trebyl rated it liked it

Shelves: hugo-2019

Reading this directly after All Systems Red made the plot feel slow. It wasn’t until about 65% of the way through that my interest was sustainably held when I picked it up to read.

Even then, it seemed to take a backseat to the other stories I had to read. I’m not sure if my enjoyment of and desire to dive into them affected how much I enjoyed Artificial Condition.

I still like Murderbot, and I’m still interested in following their story. There’s still so much to uncover.

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