Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

by Martha Wells

The good thing about being a construct is that you can’t reproduce and create children to argue with you.

“Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don’t have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.”

(If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn’t have time to think about anything else.) (Wait, I think I am angry constantly. That might explain a lot.)

(Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)

(I know, it’s a logo, but I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person and if I’m not careful I could be a thing again.)

I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

(Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you’re really here to help them. I don’t hate that moment.)

There is a lot about what is going on here that I don’t understand. But I am participating anyway.