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A Murderbot short story with no Murderbot! But plenty of ART/Peri, so it's still good.

The art and design are fantastic, but the narration and dialogue (British writer emulating American speech - narration in passive tense) are poorly rendered. I love this series, and really liked that Anderson gets an entire story arc to herself. The story is simplistic, but the emotion and action are superb.

After a heist goes horribly wrong, Maya retires from her career as a thief to take a postgraduate degree in xenology, but her old partner Auncle persuades her to have another go at getting the Stardust Grail. If she does, she may have to choose between extinction for Auncle's race, the Frenro, and cutting off humanity's access to interstellar travel.
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reading this for the second time this year (and making up for all the years this has been on my TBR).

This isn't the opening lines of MC but it is the first line of one of my favourite stories from here. This made me laugh, and is a really nice contrast to the story about Ylla.

Charles is a very high end robot, made to be “the gentleman‘s gentle robot”, kind of a robot butler. He finds that he has murdered his master, but doesn‘t know why. He sends himself to Diagnostics to try to figure out why, and along the way finds that human society has collapsed and robots are somewhat aimlessly roaming what‘s left.

This is kind of a dystopian quest book, rather philosophical, and I really liked it. ⬇️

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We love Murderbot! 5th book, and a fight with ART!

This was really sweet and fun - just wished it was MUCH longer as @RamsFan1963 has already said! The world building was so well done, I‘d love to see more robot centred stories here. Did you know the merch that is sold in the book is actually available on the authors website? Brilliant. www.automaticnoodle.website