![]() ![]() This assessment zone was a barren stretch of the coastal island, with low, flat hills rising and falling and thick greenish-black grass up to my ankles, not much in the way of flora or fauna, except a bunch of different-sized birdlike things and some puffy floaty things that were harmless as far as we knew. It was trickier to do it in the field than it was in the habitat. It was a boring contract so far and I was thinking about backburnering the status alert channel and trying to access music on the entertainment feed without HubSystem logging the extra activity. Bharadwaj finished their survey soon so we could get back to the habitat and I could watch episode 397 of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. ![]() I was also still doing my job, on a new contract, and hoping Dr. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure. 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. 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. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid - a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.īut when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.Īt the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. ![]() Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.īut in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. “As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.” All Systems Red The Murderbot Diaries SummaryĪ murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. ![]()
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