Michael Barnes
"Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t know.
Including human children. Ugh.
This may well call for… eye contact!
(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)"
The emotion check comments throughout the novel are due to the new installed “mental health module” to analyze its emotional responses and help it recalibrate its mind. I think these were a great addition giving us even more snarky observations where it has to interrogate its feelings
The opening in in the thick of an extraction with the other rogue SecUnit Three we met in Network Effect they are going rescue members of Dr. Mensah’s family who were kidnapped. The person behind the kidnapping is Director Leonides of Barrish-Estranza. Director Leonides is still experiencing the fallout of her failed mission see System Collapse (all this back story is probably why its not a good choice for anyone who hasn't read these novels.
Needless to say Murderbot picks up even more humans (and children) to rescue on the escort mission/family road trip through this multi-corporation run torus, which is itself a new futuristic structure that helps in the worldbuilding for this remarkable series.
Platform Decay also hints at much larger events going on in the background, particularly with the liberated SecUnit known as Three, and with the spread of Murderbot’s SecUnit-freeing hacking program. The new book hints at Three heading off on a major adventure while Murderbot is busy elsewhere.
A little alarming to me in an interview with the author she said "I only have one Murderbot book on contract right now,” Wells says. “I'm going to start working on that after I finish the third Witch King book, which I'm working on now. It'll probably be the end of the year, at least, before I start the next Murderbot. I've got some vague ideas for it, but I'm not really sure what it's going to be yet. And that may be the last book.”
"Everyone’s favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells’ bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.
Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.
After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn’t know.
Including human children. Ugh.
This may well call for… eye contact!
(Emotion check: Oh, for f—)"
The emotion check comments throughout the novel are due to the new installed “mental health module” to analyze its emotional responses and help it recalibrate its mind. I think these were a great addition giving us even more snarky observations where it has to interrogate its feelings
The opening in in the thick of an extraction with the other rogue SecUnit Three we met in Network Effect they are going rescue members of Dr. Mensah’s family who were kidnapped. The person behind the kidnapping is Director Leonides of Barrish-Estranza. Director Leonides is still experiencing the fallout of her failed mission see System Collapse (all this back story is probably why its not a good choice for anyone who hasn't read these novels.
Needless to say Murderbot picks up even more humans (and children) to rescue on the escort mission/family road trip through this multi-corporation run torus, which is itself a new futuristic structure that helps in the worldbuilding for this remarkable series.
Platform Decay also hints at much larger events going on in the background, particularly with the liberated SecUnit known as Three, and with the spread of Murderbot’s SecUnit-freeing hacking program. The new book hints at Three heading off on a major adventure while Murderbot is busy elsewhere.
A little alarming to me in an interview with the author she said "I only have one Murderbot book on contract right now,” Wells says. “I'm going to start working on that after I finish the third Witch King book, which I'm working on now. It'll probably be the end of the year, at least, before I start the next Murderbot. I've got some vague ideas for it, but I'm not really sure what it's going to be yet. And that may be the last book.”