{"id":52171,"date":"2025-07-14T17:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52171"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:12:52","slug":"the-murderbot-diaries-vol-1-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/14\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-1-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1 by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 36 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/ddb41692-ad12-4b46-b02d-acd8afe0487f\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Collects <cite>All Systems Red<\/cite> and <cite>Artificial Condition<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d read the first half of this back in 2018, when <cite>All Systems Red<\/cite> was nominated for the Philip K. Dick award, but until now, hadn&#8217;t gone any further into the series. Having Martha Wells as a Guest of Honor for <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlein2025.org\/\">this year&#8217;s Worldcon<\/a> was a great reason to pick these up and read them all.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely enjoyed <cite>All Systems Red<\/cite> as much as I remembered from the first time around, and <cite>Artificial Condition<\/cite> is just as fun, picking up almost exactly where ASR ends and exploring more of Murderbot&#8217;s past. Murderbot is such a great character.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_4561.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1\" title=\"IMG_4561.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 36\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Murderbot is such a great character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[3148,6904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}