"(It was actually nice to see it. Do I have to do an emotion check for that? Floating river = not terrible to see.)"
Organic tissue likes water 💙
"I recognized the tags and heading. It was my own (Murderbot 2.0’s own) hack-your-governor-module annotated code bundle. One or more of the B-E units I had given the code to on Hell Plague Planet must have passed it on. (Except this wasn’t a B-E unit. The code must be spreading, I guess. At least on this stupid torus.)"
Fuck yes.
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Pentapod/116525038714117793
It me 😅
(Okay, I did work at work, but I totally wasn't sad I had to take the slow train home because MORE READING TIME)
"But what gave the age away were the engraved numbers stretching across the plates next to the various hatch accesses in the dock area. They had been put there for human pilots, before bot-pilots and the feed were common, as a failsafe for automated approach beacons. The numbers were in three different—number systems? Languages—"
I'm not sure why I love ancient tech like this. But I do. 😍
New book: "Platform Decay" by Martha Wells. Yes. It's Murderbot time!
Murderbot visits Space Disneyland
Platform Decay feels like a bit of a "side story" imo, similar to Fugitive Telemetry. I kind of like that there are some stories where Murderbot just helps some people though, without necessarily saving a planet or taking down a corporation or making Big Discoveries about its past. It also helps with the pacing of the series as a whole when every book doesn't need to be even more epic than the previous one. Also Murderbot needs time to process its trauma after a Big One.
It's interesting to get a glimpse into more of "normal" corporation space (i.e. not labor camps or transit rings).
I like that Three had a very slightly bigger role, and I'm hoping we get even more of that in the future - I'd even enjoy some Three-centric stories, similar to how Rapport was about Perihelion and its team.
Overall, I loved it, and I'm ready for more!
A new Murderbot! Oh joy! Oh rapture!
Jules
Alexander Gerber
Tak!
Not The Wookie