{"id":52181,"date":"2025-07-19T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52181"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:12:07","slug":"the-murderbot-diaries-vol-2-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/19\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-2-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2 by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 39 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/04cbabbc-0e03-4e19-96dd-4f86079c8aeb\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Collects <cite>Rogue Protocol<\/cite> and <cite>Exit Strategy<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n<p>Brings the overall arc of the first four Murderbot novellas to a close, as Murderbot continues to investigate the circumstances behind the events of <cite>All Systems Red<\/cite>, and learns ever more about itself in the process. Really satisfying, and even as a neurotypical person (as far as I know, at least), it\u2019s all too easy to identify with Murderbot\u2019s confusion and irritation with human behavior.<\/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_4581.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2\" title=\"IMG_4581.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 39\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: Even as a neurotypical person, it\u2019s all too easy to identify with Murderbot\u2019s confusion and irritation with human behavior.<\/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\/52181"}],"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=52181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}