Artificial Condition The Murderbot Diaries

Okay I thought I’d take a break between volumes but I fear I need to find a Barnes asap.

i love ART :(

4⭐️ (slight spoilers if you haven’t read book 1)

This was a great follow up to All Systems Red, and follows Murderbot as they search for clues about a traumatic incident in their past. MB takes on a few odd jobs that go sour, uncovers a key to the past, and makes some new friends along the way! (I love ART!)

I will say I don’t think this one was good as the first book, just because it felt like less happened, but it also could be because I took a longer break in the middle of this one and forgot the first half so maybe I’ll come back to this at a later date. I love that Wells chose to dive into Murderbot’s past and use that as their driving force, while also continuing to develop MB as a character and individual separate from its role as a SecUnit.

I already have the third and fourth books downloaded and ready to go so the series is still a yes from me!!

i keep forgetting these are like novellas and i’m like wtf why do i read them so fast well cause they’re good for starters

i think i liked this one more than the first honestly the author has to stop introducing characters i get attached to and then moving on like please let murderbot have friends that stick around!!!! anyways onto the next

I love Murderbot!

The Murderbot Diaries is the only series I can think of that makes me want to literally laugh out loud. Snarky bots are such a delight.

Murderbot makes more friends, and is still the shyest murderebot to ever exist.

Funnier than the 1st book, loved the sidekick.

This was even better than the first! I love ART 🥹

Slaps

3.5 stars The Murderbot Diaries are quickly becoming a go-to quick SF fix for me. I enjoy following Murderbot and now ART too, the pair is pretty awesome! I love the drama binge-watching, I love the catastrophic situations the bot gets into, I love ART's quips, I love the world-building. I'm really flying through these, and even though this one was not as gripping I'm still very much looking forward to the 3rd.

I love this series so much. I like that this novella picked up right after the first one, and it still has everything I’d come to expect from Murderbot - funny asides, heartfelt ideals, and refreshingly honest anxiety. Low-stakes sci-fi is definitely my thing. The addition of ART was also welcome. I like that the world is growing and introducing some new characters, even if they only last for the book. Another fun and compelling story!

The second of the Murderbot Diaries, I really cannot get enough of this character and this world.

I had fun with this one. I am glad there is also an overarching plot but mostly I can tell Martha Wells was having a great time and that really makes all the more enjoyable. Otherwise it is not too dissimilar from the first one.

More Murderbot! These novella series books are great!

In the first book, I criticised the author’s way to characterise an AI character and said it was hard to believe for me how the Murderbot felt too much like a human more than a AI. I guess I focused too much on the technical nature of it.

Now with this second I understand where the author wants to go, and why he feels so human. As we follow it, we see it learning its emotions and it’s definitely voluntary and it made me remember a short story from Exhalation by Ted Chiang. I feel like Murderbot is always learning and it’s interesting to follow.

The intrigues are okay but like book 1 it feels like an accessory to follow Murderbot as a character.

Up to the next 😂😭

This book flew by! Must have liked it more than I thought.

Another fun adventure with my new best friend Murderbot! I also very much enjoyed the introduction of ART and the two of them bonding over television. Seriously, why am I relating to these characters so much???

i liked this better than the first one????

Love these characters!

Another wonderful read. Pacing was just slightly slower than the first book in the series but there was more character development. There were some times when the plot was a little confusing since there were multiple goals going on at once, but overall it was a really interesting read.

Artificial Condition is the second novella in The Murderbot Diaries, a series which chronicles the evolving adventures of Murderbot which is a Secunit (security unit) androids as it grows more and more emphatic and human. After Dr. Mensah buys out the android’s contract, letting Murderbot choose to stay with Dr. Mensah or go its own way. Murderbot promptly boards a ship headed somewhere else .In Artificial Condition, Murderbot returns to a site where it went rogue and killed a bunch of people, teams up with a research transport named ART, and falls in with a trio of researchers who are trying to negotiate a deal with their terrible employer. SecUnits aren’t supposed to be on their own, and Murderbot’s subterfuge prompts it to think deeply about how to pass as human. This is a great series. And I encourage everyone to read this. Murderbot might just make you a better human.