Les SecUnits se moquent pas mal des actualités. Même après avoir piraté mon module superviseur et débloqué mes accès, je n’y ai jamais prêté grande attention. D’abord, parce que les téléchargements de contenu multimédia risquent moins de déclencher les alarmes éventuelles des réseaux locaux et satellitaires, mais surtout, parce que les informations sont d’un ennui mortel et que je me fiche éperdument des querelles entre humains tant que je n’ai pas 1) à y mettre un terme, 2) à nettoyer après eux.
Où AssaSynth se fait passer pour un humain augmenté et embaucher comme consultant de sécurité auprès de trois scientifiques en litige avec leur employeur…
Entre voyage dans la galaxie et exploration de mine abandonnée, Schémas artificiels sonde davantage la conscience émergente du narrateur. Ses relations avec d’autres intelligences artificielles dessinent une fresque de personnages non-humains d’une grande profondeur, rappelant le cycle de « La Culture » …
Les SecUnits se moquent pas mal des actualités. Même après avoir piraté mon module superviseur et débloqué mes accès, je n’y ai jamais prêté grande attention. D’abord, parce que les téléchargements de contenu multimédia risquent moins de déclencher les alarmes éventuelles des réseaux locaux et satellitaires, mais surtout, parce que les informations sont d’un ennui mortel et que je me fiche éperdument des querelles entre humains tant que je n’ai pas 1) à y mettre un terme, 2) à nettoyer après eux.
Où AssaSynth se fait passer pour un humain augmenté et embaucher comme consultant de sécurité auprès de trois scientifiques en litige avec leur employeur…
Entre voyage dans la galaxie et exploration de mine abandonnée, Schémas artificiels sonde davantage la conscience émergente du narrateur. Ses relations avec d’autres intelligences artificielles dessinent une fresque de personnages non-humains d’une grande profondeur, rappelant le cycle de « La Culture » de Iain Banks. Et à se mettre au service d’humains, AssaSynth découvre à quel point il est délicat de ne pas s’attacher émotionnellement à ceux qu’on protège.
Défaillances systèmes, la première des quatre novellas qui forment « Journal d’un AssaSynth », a reçu les prix Hugo, Nebula, Alex et Locus.
The second adventure with the self-styled murderbot was a quick, fun read. This had echoes of the hilarious depressed disinterested yet obsessed with observations of the humans around it. With the help of a new ship AI ally ART, we find out more about murderbots past.
I still find murderbot awfully relatable and funny. this series reads quickly and it’s entertaining enough even if it doesn't get deep and just skims over the surface of things. good to pass the time and share murderbot's awkwardness due to being surrounded by the emotional beings called humans.
I still find murderbot awfully relatable and funny. this series reads quickly and it’s entertaining enough even if it doesn't get deep and just skims over the surface of things. good to pass the time and share murderbot's awkwardness due to being surrounded by the emotional beings called humans.
Review of 'Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This is the second book of The Murderbot Diaries and I enjoyed it a lot more than the first one. It had a bit of a detective novel feel to it, even though it isn't anything like that. Plus I really enjoyed that there was another AI for Murderbot to talk to. I hope ART comes back in the future! Looking forward to reading more of these fun, short books.
This is the second book of The Murderbot Diaries and I enjoyed it a lot more than the first one. It had a bit of a detective novel feel to it, even though it isn't anything like that. Plus I really enjoyed that there was another AI for Murderbot to talk to. I hope ART comes back in the future! Looking forward to reading more of these fun, short books.
4.5 stars for this one. I enjoyed it way more than the first one, though it nicely continues Murderbot's story. Murderbot has a hacked governor module, so is basically one of the dreaded rogues only known in media. It hacked it after a massacre in a mining pit on some moon. But Murderbot barely remembers anything about it, so instead of staying with the crew that adopted it, it runs off to travel to the mining moon to find out what happened.
On the way she 'befriends' ART, an asshole transport ship, and finds new humans to protect. Of course everything goes terribly wrong, and Murderbot has to do what it's great at: murdering.
Seriously, I enjoyed just about anything here. ART was great, the story about the surveyors wanting their data back was exciting, and it even included a non-binary character, and diverse relationships. Bring it on, modern science …
4.5 stars for this one. I enjoyed it way more than the first one, though it nicely continues Murderbot's story. Murderbot has a hacked governor module, so is basically one of the dreaded rogues only known in media. It hacked it after a massacre in a mining pit on some moon. But Murderbot barely remembers anything about it, so instead of staying with the crew that adopted it, it runs off to travel to the mining moon to find out what happened.
On the way she 'befriends' ART, an asshole transport ship, and finds new humans to protect. Of course everything goes terribly wrong, and Murderbot has to do what it's great at: murdering.
Seriously, I enjoyed just about anything here. ART was great, the story about the surveyors wanting their data back was exciting, and it even included a non-binary character, and diverse relationships. Bring it on, modern science fiction, bring it on.