All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

by Martha Wells

I yelled, “No!” which I’m not supposed to do; I’m always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they’re about to accidentally commit suicide.

I was so appreciative I gave her my real opinion,

This is why I didn’t want to come. I’ve got four perfectly good humans here and I didn’t want them to get killed by whatever took out DeltFall. It’s not like I cared about them personally, but it would look bad on my record, and my record was already pretty terrible.

She’s a really good commander. I’m going to hack her file and put that in.

Gurathin turned to me. “So you don’t have a governor module, but we could punish you by looking at you.” I looked at him. “Probably, right up until I remember I have guns built into my arms.”

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.