All Systems Red
Martha Wells, 2017
A bored security android hacks its own obedience chip and spends the assignment binge-watching soap operas instead of guarding its humans.
Martha Wells
Wells published her first novel in 1993 and wrote fantasy for more than two decades before Murderbot made her a bestseller.
Feels like humor, identity and freedom.
What a lethal machine does with its evenings when nobody is watching.
I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure. Books by Martha Wells
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