Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

by Martha Wells

I guess you can’t tell a story from the point of view of something that you don’t think has a point of view.

ART asked, Do you wish to watch media? I didn’t respond, but it started an episode of Sanctuary Moon anyway.

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And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

Being asked to stay, with a please and an option for refusal, hit me almost as hard as a human asking for my opinion and actually listening to me.

“In the creche, our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It’s imposed from the outside. So it’s possible to fight it. You should do the things you’re afraid of.”

In the feed, ART started to play the soundtrack to Sanctuary Moon and weirdly, that helped.