![]() ![]() (For some reason, cover art in the subsequent volumes continues to feature SecUnit wearing its armor and face plate, in spite of SecUnit's recurring lamentations for the loss of such protection. I felt especially compassionate for SecUnit losing its opaque faceplate, that protective armor that allowed it to hide its face from others. All Systems Red imagines the perilous, corporate future of space exploration while building on a super-catchy premise: what if A.I., like humans, went through an awkward adolescent stage where everyone else struck them as dumb and annoying Wells. ![]() The governor module may be disabled, but SecUnit is fiercely protective of the humans it works with: the difference being, it chooses to protect them. Meet the narrator of the fast and funny first book in Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries series. And it's interesting to note that the character of SecUnit resonates in both asexual and autistic communities. Identity, sexuality, so much of how humanity presents itself in society are subject to SecUnit's observations. I love this series for SecUnit's philosophical bent as it interacts with humans. SecUnit refers to itself as "Murderbot" but it holds this name intensely private, so I prefer to honor its wishes and refer to it as SecUnit. "SecUnit" who has hacked its governor module and thus gained self-autonomy. As the first installment in The Murderbot Diaries, this novella does a good job of introducing the main character, an A.I. ![]()
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