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bibliogramma) wrote2018-11-27 05:43 pm
bibliogramma) wrote2018-11-27 05:43 pm
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Martha Wells: Exit Strategy
Martha Wells’ fourth Murderbot novella, Exit Strategy, brings Murderbot back into the world of corporations it was seeking to avoid. Murderbot’s last client as a corporate SecUnit, Dr. Mensah, is being held against her will by GreyCris, the corporation that’s been behind so much of the violence and skullduggery that Murderbot has been dealing with in its quest to discover what enabled it to become self-governing, and what nearly destroyed Dr. Mensah’s expedition.
Murderbot deduces that GreyCris has captured Mensah because they believe that Mensah has been co-ordinating Murderbot’s activities, which have been highly detrimental to GreyCris’ plans. A logical assumption, perhaps, since by Corporation space law, Mensah is Murderbot’s owner.
Murderbot decides to make the attempt to free Mensah from GreyCris’ clutches, and to bring GreyCris down with the evidence of their actions it has gathered.
What follows is another tightly plotted adventure story, which serves as the background for further development of Murderbot’s ethical and emotional understanding of its own self, and of its social interactions with human who have at least some small understanding of what it is.
The novella ends with Murderbot in a temporary state of safety, contemplating its future, having for the first time a choice of options and the freedom to choose openly.
I hear that Wells is working on a Murderbot novel. That’s very exciting news.
Murderbot deduces that GreyCris has captured Mensah because they believe that Mensah has been co-ordinating Murderbot’s activities, which have been highly detrimental to GreyCris’ plans. A logical assumption, perhaps, since by Corporation space law, Mensah is Murderbot’s owner.
Murderbot decides to make the attempt to free Mensah from GreyCris’ clutches, and to bring GreyCris down with the evidence of their actions it has gathered.
What follows is another tightly plotted adventure story, which serves as the background for further development of Murderbot’s ethical and emotional understanding of its own self, and of its social interactions with human who have at least some small understanding of what it is.
The novella ends with Murderbot in a temporary state of safety, contemplating its future, having for the first time a choice of options and the freedom to choose openly.
I hear that Wells is working on a Murderbot novel. That’s very exciting news.