{"id":25883,"date":"2026-03-01T18:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=25883"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:40:03","slug":"all-systems-red-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/25883","title":{"rendered":"All Systems Red"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Systems Red<\/em><\/a> (2017) Martha Wells<\/a> (The Murderbot Diaries #1)<\/p>\n

\"All<\/p>\n

This is why I prefer wearing the armor, even inside the habitat where it\u2019s unnecessary and can just get in the way. Human clients usually like to pretend I\u2019m a robot and that\u2019s much easier in the armor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don\u2019t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there\u2019s nothing you can do about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When he said, \u201cI have a question,\u201d I flinched. The silence up to this point had lulled me into a false sense of security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Murderbot, Dr. Volescu, Dr. Bharadwaj, Pin-Lee, Arada, Dr. Gurathin, Dr. Mensah, Ratthi<\/p>\n

Cover illustration by Jaime Jones<\/p>\n

Publisher: Tordotcom<\/p>\n

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

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