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“I was having an emotion, and I hate that. I’d rather have nice safe emotions about shows on the entertainment media; having them about things real-life humans said and did just led to stupid decisions.” ― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy
Title sequence designs inspired by the real-life shows Martha Wells based Murderbot's favorite shows on.
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Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀
WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission.
Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far.
Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency.
Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce. But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!
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actually i think one of my favorite things about murderbot is how it is CONSTANTLY like "i lie so much i'm such a liar all i do is lie to everyone" and then the moment it's confronted with a situation where it has the choice between lying and telling the truth, it usually either (a) panics and tells the truth or (b) tells the truth because it doesn't know a lie good enough to assist in the situation.
at some point in one of the books it's like "so i told the truth. (i know, that surprised me too)" and i was just sitting there like murderbot, love, you're the only one surprised by this. you are a proven and chronic truth-teller. the only reason why it's convinced that it lies more than it tells the truth is because it spent 35k hours pretending its governor module was still active, and that was a survival tactic for a person who had no idea what to do after a lifetime of being told what to do, and with a high likelihood of being killed if it isn't smart about what it does. when it's for survival, does it actually count as lying??? that's a discussion for another day. what i'm saying is that murderbot is bad at lying and i think that's really funny.
Like murder, lying is something Murderbot includes in its understanding of its own identity... despite the fact that both lying and murder are things it does not like or choose to do. (Being forced to do it leaves marks.)
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Obsessed with these Latvian Murderbot covers by Andis Reinbergs
Murderbot: God, I fucking hate humans *adopts every earnest and nice human it meets* they're so annoying *practically melts every time one listens to it or asks for its opinion* they're so stupid I'm just going to let them die when they make stupid decisions *almost dies protecting its humans multiple times* If one more human touches me I will break their wrist *holds scared humans' hand and raises body temperature as reassurance* don't even get me STARTED on that asshole research transport I hate it so much *misses it constantly and compares all other bots to it* I'm just a scary angry rogue SecUnit who everyone should be afraid of *sits on the couch and watches serials for 20 hours straight*
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Anonymous asked:
What is murderbots and why should I read/listen
The Murderbot Diaries is a sci-fi series by Martha Wells mostly taking place in a dystopian capitalist future. Basically, the viewpoint character is a company-manufactured private security guard rented out to the managers of space! company towns.
After hacking its governor module, nothing much changes about its life for several years until a routine job turns deadly and it's forced to trust a group of humans with its secret in order for any of them to survive.
First paragraph:
I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.
Synopsis aside, the books are fast-paced, fun, and hopeful; and Kevin R. Free has great voices for all the characters.
If you liked the Imperial Radch series, speculative sci-fi relevant to our current late-stage capitalism problems, or are a fan of non-human perspective in fiction, Murderbot is for you.
oh holy shit the $20 tier of this audiobook bundle (affiliate link) includes... murderbot? all of murderbot. every murderbot novella and novel, narrated by kevin r. free (who you may know from welcome to night vale), in mp3 format and with a portion of every purchase going to the national coalition against censorship. there are other audiobooks included but. MURDERBOT.
Rereading All Systems Red, I noticed the part at the end when Mensah is talking about Preservation, she brings up educational opportunities as something it can do. And I'm just like, was she planning on sending Murderbot to COLLEGE?
So I immediately amused myself by imagining an crack AU where it didn't leave, and ended up going to college, but like, in a stereotypical non-futurey, sitcom-like "college experience" kind of way. With a roommate and everything. And the image was so amusing to me that I had to share.
Like,
MB's roommate: yeah, my roommate is kind of weird. It doesn't eat and just watches TV all night. (Cut to the roommate waking up in the middle of the night and getting something out of the mini fridge, they turn around and jump, because Murderbot is just sitting up on its bed, eyes open and staring at nothing as it watches media.) But it's great because it makes going to parties feel much safer. (Cut to Murderbot, going full Threat Assessment at a stereotypical frat party. A guy is harassing one of its friends and it throws him out the window.) Although, I thought when I got someone with that much processing power as a roommate, they might be able to tutor me, but it turns out it's the other way around. (Cut to Roommate and Murderbot studying at their desks. "What do you mean you deleted the recording you made of the lecture?" "There was a new serial I wanted to watch!")
Additionally: the professor taking roll call, reaches "SecUnit" on the page, frowns as he scans the class and yells out. "Mx SecUnit, how many times do I have to tell you? If you just send your drone to class, you will be marked absent. You need to actually come to class so you can participate in class discussions!"
I find this very dumb and amusing. It is up to you to imagine if it is in full armor or not.
Six seasons and a movie, please.