Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

by Martha Wells

I didn’t care what humans were doing to each other as long as I didn’t have to a) stop it or b) clean up after it.

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.

Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.

I sighed again. I was having a lot of opportunities to do it and I think I was getting good at it.

“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.”

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans. This is what my crew tells me and my own observations seem to confirm it.

I was just as shit at being a security consultant as any human.