Martha Wells Is Having too Much Fun Here...
Highly recommended. Martha Wells appears to have had an illegally large amount of fun writing this novel. Here a newly-created instantiation of Murderbot sets out on what is supposed to be a suicide mission. Murderbot's first person POV:
Martha Wells: Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=sBK_yAEACAAJ&dq=isbn:1250229863: 'Obviously some things had happened since [the] A[--hole ]R[esearch ]T[ransport] had... cop[ied the old me to create me]...
...And ART was right, it couldn’t risk a comm contact, even to get intel. If the Targets managed to deliver the threat to kill ART’s crew, it would put them in control of the situation and we had to avoid that any way we could.
I said, "I’m not actually a human baby, ART, I remember the f---ing directive—I helped write it".
"You’re not making this any easier", ART said.
"You can either have an existential crisis or get your crew back, ART, pick one".
ART said, "Prepare for deployment..."
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