{"id":17723,"date":"2021-09-06T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=17723"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:51","slug":"rogue-protocol-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/17723","title":{"rendered":"Rogue Protocol, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DOL93z\">Rogue Protocol<\/a><\/em>, Audio Edition (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/wells_martha.php\">Martha Wells<\/a> narrated by Kevin R. Free (Murderbot)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DOL93z\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rogue-Protocol.jpg?resize=196%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rogue Protocol\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14053\" \/><\/a>Murderbot, Book 3<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ART\u2019s official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into pretending to be an augmented human security consultant, saved my clients\u2019 lives, and had cleaned up after me when I had to murder some humans. (They were bad humans.) I really missed ART.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The change in my configuration would fool scans but not another SecUnit, and any Unit that detected me would report it to their HubSystem immediately. I sure as hell would have reported me. Rogue SecUnits are fucking dangerous, trust me on that.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I had to withdraw back to my dark cubicle. I was having an emotion again. <\/p>\n<p>An angry one. Before Dr. Mensah bought me, I could count the number of times I sat on a human chair and it was never in front of clients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, Murderbot.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Recorded Books<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue Protocol, Audio Edition (2018) Martha Wells narrated by Kevin R. Free (Murderbot) Murderbot, Book 3 ART\u2019s official designation was deep space research vessel. At various points in our relationship, ART had threatened to kill me, watched my favorite shows with me, given me a body configuration change, provided excellent tactical support, talked me into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[191,37,204,196,41,25,936],"tags":[540,219,218,538,655],"class_list":["post-17723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-audio-book","category-good","category-novella","category-reread","category-science-fiction","category-single-point-of-view","tag-aromantic","tag-martha-wells","tag-murderbot","tag-nb","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-4BR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21424,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21424","url_meta":{"origin":17723,"position":0},"title":"Rogue Protocol, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"December 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Rogue Protocol (2018) Martha Wells narrated by Kevin R. 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