{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:435,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/ddb41692-ad12-4b46-b02d-acd8afe0487f&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:127,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattlein2025.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260207134041\\\/https:\\\/\\\/seattlein2025.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 03:07:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 01:14:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-16 22:26:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 08:42:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 10:26:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 02:34:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 12:51:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 13:09:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 20:55:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 20:55:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[3148,6904],"class_list":["post-52171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-martha-wells","tag-the-murderbot-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52305,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52171\/revisions\/52305"}],"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}]}}