Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

by Martha Wells

(There needs to be an error code that means “I received your request but decided to ignore you.”)

They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.

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

I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other.

(Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.)

Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

We were talking about GrayCris here, whose company motto seemed to be “profit by killing everybody and taking their stuff.”