Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

by Martha Wells

there’s the right kind of unrealistic and the wrong kind of unrealistic.

This is a preference theme through the books.

humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)