{"id":14206,"date":"2021-04-15T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:51","slug":"exit-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14206","title":{"rendered":"Exit Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exit Strategy<\/a><\/em> (2018) Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries)<\/p>\n

\"Exit<\/a>MURDERBOT!<\/p>\n

(Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it\u2019s the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After escaping mostly unscathed from the discovery that GrayCris had not been terraforming Milu but instead mining alien artifacts, Murderbot discovered that Dr. Mensah has probably been kidnapped by GrayCris. <\/p>\n

So Murderbot decides they are obliged to rescue Dr. Mensah. Definitely not for sentimental reasons.<\/p>\n

She glared at me. \u201cYou left.\u201d <\/p>\n

Somehow I hadn\u2019t expected that. I said, \u201cMensah said I could learn to do anything I wanted. I learned to leave.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love Murderbot.<\/p>\n

SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasn\u2019t comfortable. I entertained myself by infiltrating the hotel\u2019s security system while I waited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This series is just so much all the things.<\/p>\n

Disinformation, which is the same as lying but for some reason has a different name, is the top tactic in corporate negotiation\/ warfare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am barely holding off jumping immediately into the next story.<\/p>\n

Publisher : Tordotcom
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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