System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

by Martha Wells

You’re stalling, ART-drone said. I am not. I can stand here and be useless without any ulterior motives, thanks.

humans have a bad habit of assuming that if they know a thing, all the other humans in the vicinity know it, too. Either that or they believe none of the other humans know anything that they don’t know. It’s either one or the other and both are potentially catastrophic and really fucking annoying.