{"id":52201,"date":"2025-08-03T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52201"},"modified":"2025-08-23T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:11:17","slug":"the-murderbot-diaries-vol-3-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/03\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-3-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 3 by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:422,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/2f39385c-a87a-4285-8775-06d4ee7b73ae&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;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 42 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/2f39385c-a87a-4285-8775-06d4ee7b73ae\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Collects <cite>Fugitive Telemetry<\/cite> and <cite>System Collapse<\/cite>.)<\/p>\n<p>The final two Murderbot novellas (so far), though the novel Network Effect takes place between them, so I read the first half of this book, paused to read the novel, and came back to finish this off. As good as the rest, and Murderbot and ART make such a good pair of characters.<\/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\/08\/IMG_4613.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 3\" title=\"IMG_4613.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 42\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: As good as the rest, and Murderbot and ART make such a good pair of characters.<\/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-52201","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\/52201","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=52201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52299,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52201\/revisions\/52299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}