Old white cishet suburban male. Software engineer.
Mostly interested in sci-fi (fiction) and anti-racism (non-fiction), but, wow, is that stuff Hard To Read. (Mostly because it's all my fault.)
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No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body …
It's a bit like robot-detective-noir. I loved it. Good combo of sardonicism (sardonicness? sardonicy?) and dry humor. (Or do those two always go together?)
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
As good as the others. (Which to say: excellent.)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
I am LOVING this series, and this novel was no exception.
With all the inner monologue and 4th-wall breaking (and the asynchronous HelpMe.file insertions), I keep thinking "how could this be rendered in video?" (Except I didn't think "render" in my head, because holy cow, is it pretentious.)
And my conclusion is: it would be tough, and very few could do it. I'd love to see it done well, but 99% of book-based video is so "lossy", to appropriate a criticism of JPEG as compared to GIF. ("Lossy" meaning all those delicate plot and character nuances are lost.)
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. …
This one was also awesome. Murderbot, for some reason, feels responsible for some humans and a smaller number of other bots. This is an interesting plot device.
Also, it feels to me like there's this sort of "escaped slave at risk of being recaptured" thing, along with "other humans feel guilty about that and want to treat it kindly but murderbot finds that extremely awkward and tiresome" thing, and I think those two things could definitely be (de?)coded differently, if you have a mind to, and that feels different (and I like it).
Alsø alsø, there's that whole "cold, heartless sole wanderer always moving like a rolling stone" thing that's appealing.
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
How do I work this bookwyrm thing? The book was awesome.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Pretty good. Light, like summertime reading, but (extremely) competently written, imo.
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there are the things you'd expect. …
