Artificial Condition
Artificial ConditionMartha Wells
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Artificial Condition (2018)

Martha Wells

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...

ISBN:
9781250186928
Length:
154 pages

Genres: science fiction

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Reviews2

Kalanadi
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I feel like Artificial Condition is just a great continuation on from All Systems Red. If you like the first novella, you'll probably really enjoy the second one.