Nook & Cranny reviewed Artificial condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Gripping Read
5 stars
Enjoyed it a lot.

Martha Wells: Изкуствено състояние (Hardcover, Bulgarian language, 2024, Студио Артлайн)
Hardcover, 168 pages
Bulgarian language
Published June 26, 2024 by Студио Артлайн.
Понякога не можеш да сториш нищо срещу това, което хората ти причиняват... Трябва просто да оцелееш и да продължиш.
Той има тъмно минало, в което група хора са били убити. Минало, което го е накарало да се нарече „бот убиец“. Ала спомените му за касапницата, довела до това наименование, са мъгляви и той иска да знае повече. Обединил силите си с изследователски транспортен кораб, ботът убиец се отправя към минното съоръжение, където е излязъл извън контрол. А онова, което открива, завинаги ще промени начина му на мислене...
Марта Уелс е американски автор на научна фантастика, юношески романи, разкази и нехудожествени произведения. Удостоявана е с множество награди, включително „Небюла“, „Хюго“ и „Локус“. Книгите й са превеждани на повече от двайсет езика.
Enjoyed it a lot.
Abgesehen von forcierter geschlechtergerechter Sprache weiterhin in Ordnung.
I think anything I could say about this book I could say about the previous ones in the series. Enjoyable, endearing, and with a sort of cultured, high-pulp feel.
Maybe it's because I started reading the Murderbot series with a much later entry, and so I know where the titular SecUnit ends up; because this story feels like it is a slice in the crescent of a larger arc, where nothing particularly groundbreaking is revealed.
Really good. I liked it a lot and have already started on the next one.
about a year since I read the first book, and a TV show in between it was time to pick up murderbot again. took me a bit of time to get into it, but once I was the book was finished in the day. enjoyed being back in murderbots head, the interactions with ART are great. just wished the climax would have been drawn out a little longer!
This was also very enjoyable, but not as exciting or novel as the first installment. I feel like the author is putting pieces into place for something larger, and I'm interested to see if ART returns and how their relationship develops.
if this book had a subtitle, it should be "a robot's guide to masking" or something along those lines.
the parallels between Eden and autism seem even more overt than they were in ASR. I wasn't sure if I was correctly reading between the lines in ASR, but very little twixt-line reading is needed for this one.
Murderbot is such a fun character. Never thought a construct could be so relatable but it’s just the cutest. I love when it gets bewildered by humans.