All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

by Martha Wells

I’m not good at guessing actual humans’ ages, even with all the visual entertainment I watch. People in the shows don’t usually look much like people in real life, at least not in the good shows.

The sense of urgency just wasn’t there. Also, you may have noticed, I don’t care.

And what was I supposed to do? Go off on this empty planet and just live until my power cells died? If I was going to do that I should have planned better and downloaded more entertainment media.

“I remember every word ever said to me.” That was a lie. Who would want that? Most of it I delete from permanent memory.