“Sending SecUnits after me was one thing. But they sent SecUnits after my client. No one gets to walk away from that.” By the time I reached Exit Strategy, I had started noticing a pattern in The Murderbot Diaries. The books are often discussed in terms of artificial intelligence, autonomy and personhood, and those…
By the time I reached Rogue Protocol, I thought I had a fairly good understanding of Murderbot. It was competent, sarcastic and perpetually irritated by human beings. Every novella seemed to follow a familiar pattern. Murderbot would arrive somewhere intending to mind its own business. Then a conspiracy would emerge, people would find themselves…
Every once in a while, I take a look at the Hugo and Nebula award winners. Science fiction is one of those genres I keep returning to, and the awards are usually a good way of discovering writers I might otherwise miss. That is how I ended up reading A Memory Called Empire last…