Martha Wells: All Systems Red (2019, Tordotcom Publishing)
171 pages
Langue : English
Publié 22 janvier 2019 par Tordotcom Publishing.
Pretty short with only about 160 pages. The story is enough to make me want to keep reading more from the series!
En un tiempo donde los libros son principalmente sagas infinitas con manuscritos de miles de páginas, resulta chocante darte cuenta que se puede desarrollar una historia en el equivalente a dos capítulos. Además es ágil y rápido. Fresco y agradable.
it's hard to pull off a sardonic robot protagonist, and I think this did it
It’s rare to find a compelling sci-fi book that also has a hefty helping of humor and sarcasm baked into its tone. I will definitely be reading more of this series.
From the plot alone, this novella would be a bit of perhaps cliche science fiction. What makes it both unique and compelling is that the story being told from the perspective of the "Murderbot" (hence The Murderbot Diaries), a cyborg generally treated by society as a piece of equipment.
Martha Wells's writing does a good job of showing Murderbot's personality, its particular anxieties, its relationships towards humans, and general attitudes towards life. Even if the plot is cliche, Murderbot as a character is the opposite.
