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Oh no! I’m now out of Murderbot to reread!
I reread all of Fugitive Telemetry in one sitting, because I’m still 10% sick and welched out of doing literally anything else at all that evening. I regret nothing.
This one is a straight-up murder mystery, where someone has been mysteriously murdered on Preservation Station even though that sort of thing never happens. Murderbot reluctantly joins forces with the human-and-augmented-human Preservation Station Security team to collaborate on solving the murder and also, at Dr. Mensah’s explicit directive, to improve its working relationship with them. In attempting to figure out whodunit they end up exposing both a crime ring (the good kind, i.e., the crime is breaking Corporation Rim “contract labor” laws) and some corporate espionage (DEFINITELY the bad kind). Murderbot has to learn how to do crime-solving in a non-surveillance-state, which it finds frustrating but which I loved. Gurathin continually saves Murderbot’s ass and Murderbot is too self-loathing to realize that Gurathin doesn’t actually hate it anymore. Murderbot and Gurathin are just similarly task-oriented and it is clear to ME that Gurathin is taking care of Murderbot, he’s just not touchy-feely about it, which Murderbot OUGHT to be able to RECOGNIZE except that it doesn’t want to. Anyway. I’m definitely normal about Murderbot and the Preservation survey team, I promise.
I reread all of Fugitive Telemetry in one sitting, because I’m still 10% sick and welched out of doing literally anything else at all that evening. I regret nothing.
This one is a straight-up murder mystery, where someone has been mysteriously murdered on Preservation Station even though that sort of thing never happens. Murderbot reluctantly joins forces with the human-and-augmented-human Preservation Station Security team to collaborate on solving the murder and also, at Dr. Mensah’s explicit directive, to improve its working relationship with them. In attempting to figure out whodunit they end up exposing both a crime ring (the good kind, i.e., the crime is breaking Corporation Rim “contract labor” laws) and some corporate espionage (DEFINITELY the bad kind). Murderbot has to learn how to do crime-solving in a non-surveillance-state, which it finds frustrating but which I loved. Gurathin continually saves Murderbot’s ass and Murderbot is too self-loathing to realize that Gurathin doesn’t actually hate it anymore. Murderbot and Gurathin are just similarly task-oriented and it is clear to ME that Gurathin is taking care of Murderbot, he’s just not touchy-feely about it, which Murderbot OUGHT to be able to RECOGNIZE except that it doesn’t want to. Anyway. I’m definitely normal about Murderbot and the Preservation survey team, I promise.