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Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel | Martha Wells

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What a goddamn delight to have a full length Murderbot book and to get to see ART and the Preservation crew again and to see Murderbot grow!! It even admits to having feelings!! The only thing better than one Murderbot is two Murderbots, which this book has! (Murderbot 2.0, love your work)

Incredible #audiobook performance by Kevin R Free!

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Eggs

Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel | Martha Wells

#12BooksOf2024 November

@Andrew65

Ruthiella Loved this book! I ❤️ Murderbot. 2w

Andrew65 Martha Wells is on my list for this year. 2w

Eggs @Ruthiella 🙌🏻 2w

Eggs @Andrew65 Enjoy 😊 2w

Andrew65 @Eggs Thanks, I‘m sure I will. 2w

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swynn

System Collapse | Martha Wells

Murderbot made my March pick easy for #12Booksof2024

Thanks @Andrew65 !

Andrew65 A very popular author choice. 3w

BookmarkTavern Great pick! 3w

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willaful

Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel | Martha Wells

A reread for me -- necessary before reading the next book -- and it was just as good the second time. My favorite of the “Murderbot“ series, because of the characters and relationships, and Murderbot caring so much no matter how hard it tries not to.

#12BooksOf2024 February

Andrew65

Andrew65 On my TBR! 3w

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Liz_M

System Collapse | Martha Wells

While “Death in Rome“ might arguably be a “better“ book, thought-provoking and well-written, few books are as much fun as the Murderbot series.

#12Booksof2024 @Andrew65

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Murderbot ♥️ 3w

Ruthiella I ❤️ Murderbot! 3w

Liz_M

Death in Rome

Andrew65 2025 has to be the year I read Martha Wells! 3w

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Maria_Pulver

System Collapse | Martha Wells

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I'm not sure whether it's me not being focused enough on the audiobook or were there too many technical details that were unnecessary for the smooth plot development. Well, I felt a bit overwhelmed by the technicalities. But I loved the intrigue, the inner struggle of the protagonist and the hopeful ending - there is a very interesting future ahead for Murderbot and some other security units.
#told_by_a_woman

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Maria_Pulver

Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel | Martha Wells

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The cranky and cynical Murderbot is back and now it's for the full length novel. Wells is successfully keeping the light style of the narrative while building a wider narrative and allowing our hero to move into the bigger world, more exciting adventures, new humans to befriend and new character traits to develop
#told_by_a_woman

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ChasingOm

System Collapse | Martha Wells

I usually read sci-fi in the summer, but I wasn‘t able to make it to this book before the semester started so it‘s going on the TBR for December‘s #WinterGames2024. 😄

#earlybirdpoints #holidaybookdragons

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Bookfan1414

Rogue Protocol | Martha Wells

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I‘m loving this series!

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random_michelle

Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy | Martha Wells

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For comfort, I recently reread the entire Murderbot series.

I finished the last book and wanted to immediately start the first one over.

“I closed the story by reflex, like that would make it not exist. After three seconds of shock, I made myself open it again.“

“Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation/warfare.“

julesG There's another novella

System Collapse

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random_michelle @julesG Yes! Read it! And also two short stories! Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory and Compulsory. 2mo

julesG Also

Fugitive Telemetry

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julesG If so, then you'll just have to do what I do, start over. 😁 2mo

random_michelle @julesG Yeah, but I try to only tear through an entire series no more than twice a year. :)

On the other hand, I don't think I have listened to the short stories (or even if there are audio versions of them).

I also saw there is supposed to be a Murderbot TV series. Not sure how I feel about that. I mean, a LOT happens in Murderbot's head. 2mo

julesG I'm not sure about the TV series either. They cast a "viking" for the role of Murderbot and I would have preferred a more female looking person. Murderbot is caring, and one of its aliases is female, so a male actor came as a surprise. 2mo

julesG I can recommend both, the audiobook read by RC Bray and the full cast GraphicAudio. The GraphicAudio versions play on loop in my car. Murderbot is narrated by a male actor. Not my preference, see above, but since GraphicAudio produced the audioplay with Wells' okay, I guess she was fine with the cast. 2mo

random_michelle @julesG I've thought about this a bit.

Murderbot is NB and has a dislike of all gendered body parts.

1. But Murderbot was made to be a secunit, so the company would almost certainly have based sec units on a male form, to take advantage of the fact that most men are stronger than most women. So the secunit body would likely be a muscular male with short hair. 2mo

random_michelle @julesG

2. Pronouns are presented in the feed, so people don't have to change their physical appearance to be addressed in their preferred pronouns. So it shouldn't matter how someone presents--their gender is what they tell you, not their presentation.

So I think it's likely Murderbot would present masculine to those around them (and to us) but in the universe, how they present isn't important--how they self-identify is. 2mo

random_michelle @julesG I was initially startled by Kevin R. Free's narration of the Murderbot series, because, to be honest, I identified so very strongly with Murderbot a male voice was weird.

But Murderbot wouldn't bother to change their voice to sound less masculine, they don't want to be identified as male OR female--I think their selection of “it“ as preferred pronoun is important. Murderbot isn't human (doesn't want to be human) so human genders don't fit 2mo

julesG I hear you!!! I agree with all of your points. It's just, for the TV series I wanted to see a character that's more Charlize Theron (somewhere between Mad Max Fury Road and Old Guard) than Alexander Skarsgard (who'll forever be Eric the viking vampire from True Blood for me). 2mo

julesG Right, it was Kevin R Free, not RC Bray. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 2mo

random_michelle @julesG I get that! I just think a male actor portraying someone who refuses a gender classification feels more effective (?) in making the point of agender than a female actor. I feel like a sexist world finds someone born female not wanting to be identified as female as “sensible“ or perhaps “logical“ while not wanting to be seen as male (with all the power, real and implied that come along with being male) is more “shocking“. 2mo

random_michelle @julesG I never watched True Blood. :) I think it came out after I had already gotten frustrated with the books.

Though I def. preferred Eric. Solely because of his gift to her of getting her driveway regraded. *That* was the gift someone struggling to make ends meet really needs. ;) 2mo

julesG I wish I had never read the last book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. That ruined it all. 2mo

julesG Yeah, not wanting to be seen as male might be shocking, especially to an audience that never read the books. The readers know MB doesn't want to be either sex and doesn't even have reproductive organs, cause it's not a sexbot. 2mo

random_michelle @julesG I think not wanting to be male might be shocking to many. Period.

I've read multiple historicals recently w/ trans characters, but they're trans males, doing something women can't do (like becoming a doctor) which leaves the reader open to believe they are living as men so they can Do The Thing.

I can't think of trans female secondary characters portrayed in such a way, which is why I think having a manly man be Muderbot is good. 2mo

random_michelle @julesG Yeah, I don't regret dropping out of that series early. :) 2mo

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