A review by silvae
All Systems Red by Martha Wells

4.0

Do you ever need to clean your flat and have zero motivation to do it? Maybe you should listen to the 3.5 hr audiobook of a rogue security bot who loves bingewatching series and convincing itself it doesn't like humans (but secretly does). I'm saying this with purely positive intentions but I'm sure The Murderbot Dairies would have been a hit on 2011-2014 Tumblr. If you consider yourself to be 90% social anxiety and 10% whatever humans are made of, you might just relate to our protagonist. Also: kudos to Martha Wells for writing a nicely wrapped story in the form of a novella instead of stretching it into a full-length novel, as doing so probably helped the whole socially anxious media bingeing bot shtick not grow old.

I am *mildly* worried about other publisher's eyeing this model as a fast way to sell multiple 20€ books that don't take as long to write as full-length novels, though.