Booklog 18/2024: Martha Wells: Network Effect – Murderbot #5 – Audiobook

[jacey]

Another full length outing for Murderbot. Read in chronological rather than publication order, this follows on from Murdewrbot #6, Fugitive Telemetry. Murderbot, the rogue SecUnit is now effectively 'owned' by Dr Mensah as a way to preserve its autonomy. It's on a mission with Mensah's family members and colleagues, Thiago, Mensah's bother in law, Amena, Mensah's sort-of daughter, and Drs Arada, Oversee and Ratthi. Their ship is attacked by a hostile vessel crewed by grey humanoids. The others escape, but Murderbot and Amena are taken on board the hostile. Then it gets complicated. Murderbot discovers that the hosatile ship is actually ART, the AI of which is Murderbot's friend from a previous book, now severely compromised, maybe even dead. Alien remnant tech is involves and even when Murderbot rescues and reboots ART, the deadly remnant tech, not to mention ART's missing human crew have to be found. Murderbot is its usual snarky self, baffled by human emotions yet beginning to experience something similar itself. The ending set things up for a new phase in Murderbot's life. The reader is Kevin R Free

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[watervole]

I think this is my favourite of all the murderbot books.