Book One Of The Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red, Is A Survival Mystery As A Small Team Of Scientists

Book one of The Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red, is a survival mystery as a small team of scientists are faced with an unknown threat while trapped on an isolated, hostile planet, with no hope but to trust their second hand, possibly murderous, robot security.

Artificial Condition, book two of The Murderbot Diaries, is about two robots in a trench coat pretending to be human for a job interview.

The Murderbot + Gurathin Equinox event starts today! It’s not too late to join in!

Any art form is welcome: fanfic, memes, meta, baked goods*, actual artwork…

Anything and everything that celebrates the joy that is Murderbot and Gurathin, two assholes who definitely are not friends

*yes, baked goods—come to the darkside, we have cookies 🍪🍪🍪

Link to the Murderbot Gurathin Equinox Event:

Prompts:

There's something about this paragraph in Artificial Condition that makes me reread it a hundred times before I move on:

One by one the file downloads had stopped. One had signaled that it would try to decoy SecUnit attention away from the others, and three acknowledged. One had heard screams from the control center and diverted there to try to save the humans trapped inside, and two acknowledged. One had stayed at the entrance to a corridor to try to buy time to reach SecSystem, and one acknowledged. One reported reaching SecSystem, then nothing.

There's something in the repetition of the word "one," the way it's used to count the loss of life. But also how the word invokes individuality in a series that has so much commentary about personhood. Each ONE makes decisions based on the changing situation. And each time ONE acts, ONE is lost, and every loss hurts so much.

Idk man (gender neutral), I've read this book 17 thousand times but I still need to go stand in the corner and have an emotion.