JulesNew book: "Platform Decay" by Martha Wells. Yes. It's Murderbot 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. 😍
"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.
"(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 💙
NilaJonesI am reading the same book at the same time!
I was like wait a minute... I recognize this quote...
@NilaJones nice!!!