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Murderbot, like its protagonist, and like all Frankenstein takeoffs (inasmuch as all AI stories are those these days), is a bit of a hodgepodge. Equal parts The Thing, Alien and Robocop planted on a planet straight out of golden-age sci-fi. Wells doesn't do anything wildly innovative with it - especially not in a modern SFF field full of welcome gender and POV fuckery - but Murderbot itself (themself?) is such a likeable narrator that it feels fresh. Will probably pick up the sequels at some point.
Murderbot, like its protagonist, and like all Frankenstein takeoffs (inasmuch as all AI stories are those these days), is a bit of a hodgepodge. Equal parts The Thing, Alien and Robocop planted on a planet straight out of golden-age sci-fi. Wells doesn't do anything wildly innovative with it - especially not in a modern SFF field full of welcome gender and POV fuckery - but Murderbot itself (themself?) is such a likeable narrator that it feels fresh. Will probably pick up the sequels at some point.
