{"id":22096,"date":"2023-06-24T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T23:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22096"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:25","slug":"artificial-condition-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22096","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Okg1iq\">Artificial Condition<\/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\/3Okg1iq\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Artificial-Condition.jpg?resize=190%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Artificial Condition\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Artificial-Condition.jpg?w=1150&amp;ssl=1 1150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Artificial-Condition.jpg?resize=190%2C300&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Artificial-Condition.jpg?resize=647%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 647w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Artificial-Condition.jpg?resize=768%2C1215&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Artificial-Condition.jpg?resize=971%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 971w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calm down, ART said, not helpfully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I closed the story by reflex, like that would make it not exist. After three seconds of shock, I made myself open it again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>My human parts were experiencing a cold prickling that wasn\u2019t comfortable. This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn\u2019t help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Publisher: Tordotcom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Condition (2018) Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries) Calm down, ART said, not helpfully. I closed the story by reflex, like that would make it not exist. After three seconds of shock, I made myself open it again. My human parts were experiencing a cold prickling that wasn\u2019t comfortable. This place was creepy. I reminded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[192,189,668,292,207,608,196,148,41,25,936],"tags":[219,218,538,655],"class_list":["post-22096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-5-10","category-ace","category-comfort-read","category-ebook","category-mental-health-rep","category-neurodiversity","category-novella","category-queer","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-5Ko","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21420,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21420","url_meta":{"origin":22096,"position":0},"title":"Artificial Condition, Audio Edition","author":"Michelle","date":"December 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Artificial Condition (2018) Martha Wells narrated by Kevin R. 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