{"id":24037,"date":"2024-11-02T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24037"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:24","slug":"system-collapse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24037","title":{"rendered":"System Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

System Collapse<\/em><\/a> (2023) Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)<\/p>\n

\"System<\/a><\/p>\n

(According to Martyn, ART is of course capable of doing its own accounting, but it always ends up with extra numbers that no one can trace. So now Turi does it and has to keep a hardcopy ledger because otherwise ART would alter their data. No one knew if ART was making up numbers for the hell of it or if these numbers represented actual credit balances that ART was hiding somewhere.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ART currently arguing with Seth about his selection of a high-carb protein for his meal break and threatening to inform Martyn and Iris about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On our private feed, ART-drone said, What the hell are you doing? Your stats are dropping<\/em>. <\/p>\n

I was just thinking about alien contamination<\/em>, I told it. <\/p>\n

Stop that immediately<\/em>, ART-drone said. <\/p>\n

Right, good luck with that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Perihelion \/ ART, Ratthi, Overse, Pin-Lee, Dr. Mensah, Dr. Bharadwaj, Amena, Thiago, Iris, Tarik, Seth, Martyn, Karime, Matteo, Three, Sub-Supervisor Dellcourt, Bellagaia, Kaede, Danis, Variset, Corian, Turi, Trinh, AdaCol2, Lucia, Supervisor Leonide, Holism, Sum Total<\/p>\n

Publisher: Tor<\/p>\n

Rating: 9.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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