{"id":22136,"date":"2023-08-06T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22136"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:24","slug":"compulsory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22136","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3qoVSA2\">Compulsory<\/a><\/em> (2023) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/wells_martha.php\">Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3qoVSA2\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Compulsory.png?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Compulsory\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Compulsory.png?w=666&amp;ssl=1 666w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Compulsory.png?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>MURDERBOT SHORT STORY<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Tania! &lt;3 <\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Subterranean Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compulsory (2023) Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries) MURDERBOT SHORT STORY Thank you Tania! &lt;3 Publisher: Subterranean Press<\/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":[191,292,35,936],"tags":[219,218,538,655],"class_list":["post-22136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-ebook","category-short-story","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-5L2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20043,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20043","url_meta":{"origin":22136,"position":0},"title":"Exit Strategy","author":"Michelle","date":"June 12, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Exit Strategy (2018) Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries) I love Murderbot, but I also love the other tech. 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