{"id":24328,"date":"2025-03-14T17:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24328"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:04","slug":"system-collapse-audiobook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24328","title":{"rendered":"System Collapse, Audio Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

System Collapse<\/em>, Audiobook<\/a> (2023) Martha Wells<\/a> narrated by Kevin R Free (Murderbot Diaries #7) <\/p>\n

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

I still felt radically off my game and I was hoping for reassurance rather than statistics that confirmed that I was correct in thinking that everything sucked right now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\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

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. 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: Recorded Books<\/p>\n

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

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