Just read Revenant Gun

[conuly]

Apparently, sometime in the past few years, robots watching TV became a thing? There's one in this book too! It's a fanvidder! Too cute. Cute is not a word I thought I'd use about anything in this trilogy, but there it is. (It's the only time.) At one point it replaces the incriminating dialog in a surveillance tape with something innocuous that probably wouldn't stand up to close scrutiny. In fact, it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny, because the dialog used was cribbed word-for-word from some egregious technobabble from the big bad's "least favorite" drama - and yeah, I don't know why he memorized that scene either if it's not his favorite show. Maybe he hatewatches it in between errands.

Comments

[elainegrey]

Ah! Murderbot watches TV, too! Which, indeed, i read because you recommended it.

Murderbot in that first novella reminded me of disengaged employees everywhere. I don't know if independent murderbot will be as interesting, and so haven't moved forward in that reading.

[conuly]

I liked the second one too, and have preordered the remaining two.