{"id":20031,"date":"2022-06-12T18:55:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T22:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20031"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:50","slug":"rogue-protocol-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20031","title":{"rendered":"Rogue Protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3twuZIw\">Rogue Protocol<\/a><\/em> (2018) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/wells_martha.php\">Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3twuZIw\"><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=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rogue Protocol\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rogue-Protocol.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Rogue-Protocol.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Being a SecUnit sucked. I couldn\u2019t wait to get back to my wild rogue rampage of hitching rides on bot-piloted transports and watching my serials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that\u2019s how they treated it. <\/p>\n<p>I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In my feed, Miki said, I never talked to a bot like me before. I have human friends, but I never had a friend like me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Miki told her, <em>Priority is to protect my friends<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Priority change<\/em>, Abene sent. <em>Priority is to protect yourself<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>That priority change is rejected<\/em>, Miki told her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parts of this one really stuck with me.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Tordotcom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue Protocol (2018) Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries) Being a SecUnit sucked. I couldn\u2019t wait to get back to my wild rogue rampage of hitching rides on bot-piloted transports and watching my serials. Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really [&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":[10,668,292,204,196,41,25,936],"tags":[219,218,538,655],"class_list":["post-20031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-10","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-good","category-novella","category-reread","category-science-fiction","category-single-point-of-view","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-5d5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25890,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25890","url_meta":{"origin":20031,"position":0},"title":"Rogue Protocol","author":"Michelle","date":"March 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Rogue Protocol (2018) Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) Pretending bad things aren\u2019t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run. 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