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torpublishinggroup · 6 months

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Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission.

Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far.

Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency.

Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce.

But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!

#martha wells #system collapse #murderbot #murderbot diaries #murderbot spoilers #network effect spoilers #new books #science fiction #as a heartless killing machine i was a complete failure #booklr #tbr #robots

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animusbell · 1 year

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*makes a copy of my brain* haha this definitely won't be a person nor will its decisions reflect on me in any way

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #murderbot 2.0 #network effect #network effect spoilers #mine #my art

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sepulchritude · 3 months

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Network Effect is killinggggg meeeee 😭 I stayed up late to find out if ART was still alive and now murderbot is pissed at it “because it endangered mb’s humans” but really because it was scared 😭 it thought its only remaining friend was dead just like mikki (and we know how well it handled that) and it’s still brand new to being a person and it doesn’t know how to handle these stupid emotions like grief and loss so it’s taking the whiplash and turning that into anger at being tricked so it doesn’t have to deal with it

And then on the other hand ART knew it was going to be killed and enacted a last ditch plan to get murderbot involved because it trusted mb to save it and it worked but now its only friend in the entire universe is pissed at it and neither of them is capable of understanding why!!

I’m not even halfway through the book 😭😭😭

#help they’re people and they don’t know how to deal with it 😫 the universal symptom of being a person 🥺#i’m losing my mind #murderbot #network effect #network effect spoilers #sepulchritudinous

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chell-sea-art · 1 year

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I’m sure someone’s already made this joke, but

#murderbot diaries #network effect #murderbot #perihelion #Chell sea art #comics #digital art #procreate art #HOW DO I TAG THE CHARACTER ‘ART’#phineas and ferb #perry the platypus #network effect spoilers #I think?#asshole research transport

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elkian · 2 months

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I have finished my Network Effect reread and noted another difference.

(Also, can I say? Martha Wells managing completely different voices for 1.0 and 3 is truly amazing given their similar backgrounds and the much shorter amount of time 3 gets to be on screen? I'm not as sure about how 2.0's voice differs or not from 1.0 but there's still some great POV shift happening here.)

During my reread, I'd idly noted that Murderbot's perspective was always past-tense. I though this was a little odd for how it seemed to be narrating current events, though maybe it was a carryover from how the first book was essentially a retrospective diary that it left on Mensah's nightstand.

But it came back to the fore when I realized:

3 thinks in present-tense.

Its narration style differs from 1.0 anyways - more standardized report-style at first, though whether its headers becoming shorter is a personal choice or Wells' decision to speed things up could be read either way. But, 3 always thinks in the present tense! It even throws "is" into sentences with a verb that ends with "-ed" to make clear that everything is present. It's interesting, and I think is part of what contributes to it sounding "younger" than MB - everything is old news for Murderbot, who's been doing this a while, while everything is new (and has no protocol to prep around) for 3. Just a fun detail.

#elk reads murderbot #network effect spoilers #elk text #the murderbot diaries #tmd #murderbot #secunit 3

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chelshiart · 1 year

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#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot #murderbot 2.0 #network effect spoilers #secunit #martha wells #they mean everything to me #no fear i still have a gazillion mb doodles that need posting hahah

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rrainbowmagnet · 1 month

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Murderbot, after Amena tells it 2.0 is its baby: Am I pregant?

Murderbot, as the horror slowly dawns on it: Am I gregnant?

Murderbot, turning to ART: Is there a possibly that I’m pegrent?

ART, starting to consider the idea itself: Could I be pregonate?

ART, consulting its coding manuals: Am I pegnate? Help!

ART, watching 2.0 load in slowly: Thirty-eight plus two weeks… pregananant?

Murderbot, monitoring its clients: Dangerops prangent sex?

Murderbot, asking for their professional medical opinion: Will it hurt baby top of his head?

ART, judging its humans on their choices: Can you down a twenty foot waterslide pegnat?

ART, watching the class science experiment grow at an alarming rate: I think my dog is pregernet

Both, trying to figure out the ethics of creating 2.0: How do I know if I’m prengan?

ART: Can I be prregnant?

Murderbot, realizing it’s ART who’s hosting the code: Can u get pregante?

ART: And am I pregegnant…

Both, accepting 2.0’s sacrifice: …or am I okay?

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot as internet drama shorts #how is prangent formed #network effect spoilers

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tribblefarmer · 1 year

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Ok, so, I don't know if there will ever be a Murderbot TV show, but if there was I really hope it would be

Animated

Shown entirely from Murderbot's POV

I think this is a really unique opportunity because MB is a character with multiple points of view!

Between it's drone cameras and hacked security cameras you can get a wide variety of angles. It's own eyes can be used in scenes where it doesn't have access to any external cameras (which could result in some jerky found film horror style footage) or when a scene involves Feeling Some Emotions at someone. Imagine how creepy Network Effect could be as it gradually loses drones for no visible reason.

Some shots could have a HUD style overlay indicating performance reliability and such, with a little box in the corner playing various serials when appropriate.

We would be able to see recorded footage it gets from other constructs and bots too, seeing Ganaka pit from the POV's of the four ComfortUnits could be terrifyingly impactful.

We would hardly see it's own face, just when it stops to check what it's expression is doing with it's own cameras and occasional accidental camera angles or reflections. I'm picturing a scene where it stops to check itself out in the hygiene facility mirror after ART finishes the surgery in AC.

Basically this is a really unique opportunity to show something from a single character's POV without the typical problems that come with that.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #artificial condition #artificial condition spoilers #network effect #network effect spoilers #i have so many cool ideas for this #the scene where mensah talks to it in the cubicle could be the first time we see it's face #distorted in the reflection on the cubicle door #i think it would like being in media but not having it's face onscreen a lot #all of the company's logos could be censored #it could fade into the background of scenes where the humans are having drama #until it's part of the drama itself #as a fellow autistic i can relate to not wanting to be perceived directly #reblog with your own ideas for cool shots

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bigcats-birds-and-books · 5 months

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...i'm sorry but. are you saying that. ART. provided. leverage??

i have another crew it might be interested in. it and bot both, actually.

#network effect #martha wells #network effect spoilers #murderbot spoilers #listen i know i'm a book behind but give me this please #murderbot #art #leverage #but gosh can you imagine #eliot and bot commiserating over security concerns and people not following the damn protocols #eliot and bot throwing each other at their problems faster and harder and hanging on longer about it as an Entire Fighting Style #HARDISON AND ART #SPECIFICALLY 20-SOMETHING-YO HARDISON WHO'S BRILLIANT AND BASICALLY ADOLESCENT HUMAN AND ART!!!#also i feel like parker would have fun exploring art's vents #i want bot and parker to meet also #eliot spencer #alec hardison #parker #i don't want to think about what nate and art would accomplish together lmao #sophie and art taking EXCELLENT care of their crews and manipulating the shit out of everyone #this is page 188 of network effect in hardback btw

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wyndlerunner · 11 months

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Murderbot and Peri

Sitting in the Feed,

C-O-D-I-N-G!

Ask the comms

For a data package,

Here comes Killware

Sent for max damage

First comes a file,

Sent with a ping

Then comes Killware

On a data string!

#love that Amena’s first thought when Murderbot decided to replicate himself was #that it was unethical to make a baby with ART to use as a weapon #I’m sure MB2.0 will be significant to the plot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #murderbot spoilers #network effect #network effect spoilers #perihelion #asshole research transport #murderbot 2.0 #I acknowledge that I didn’t follow the original meter and structure of the OG rhyme #but in my defense #there are a lot of long words in Sci-fi #I couldn’t get it to be exact #and I couldn’t decide which version was better #so I just made it longer #excuse any weird spellings here #listening to audiobook makes it very difficult

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torpublishinggroup · 6 months

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Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission.

Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far.

Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency.

Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce.

But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!

#martha wells #science fiction #system collapse #murderbot #murderbot diaries #network effect spoilers #murderbot spoilers #booklr #new books #tbr

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animusbell · 1 year

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nothing funnier than Murderbot -- someone who hacked its own governing code, and once given an out, proceeded to do what it wanted -- being shocked and alarmed that a fully sentient copy of its kernel would modify its own directive code

#murderbot #murderbot 2.0 #the murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries spoilers #network effect #network effect spoilers #ahh the parallels. or something

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elvencantation · 3 months

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i’m ATTACHED

#secunit 3 #three the secunit #secunit three #3 the secunit #idk what to tag it #art md #network effect #network effect spoilers #murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries liveblog #asshole research transport

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whisperofthewaves · 6 months

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every time I get to this point (which is twice now) I have to stop and have a moment, bc when I first read a tumblr post mentioning that ART and Murderbot had a baby I immediately dismissed it as part of some vague fanon extrapolated from a barely relevant drop of canon.

but no.

Amena literally says it would be their baby. it's right there. spelled out in the sentence. that she says.

#nothing important #mbd #mbd spoilers #murderbot diaries spoilers #network effect spoilers #it's not really a baby. BUT SHE CALLS IT A BABY.#lmao

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elkian · 2 months

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ALSO re: Network Effect, the bit where Murderbot realizes the thing sending a distress call almost certainly needs to be exploded with high ordinance and extreme prejudice,

and when that thing asks if it will help, it still says yes, with the narration reading "We were probably going to have to kill this thing, but that's no reason to be mean in the meantime."

AND THEN when shit starts going down and it's. It's upset. And you realize, like it says, that it considered these entities victims. Even the one in the process of trying to remove Murderbot's consciousness from its body and turn it into an eldritch horror. It's angry because it sympathizes with them and it can't not care about people and it knows what it's like, not having control over your own body or even mind while being told to kill people, maybe people you were trying to protect AUGH.....

#i have a lot of emotions about murderbot #tmd #elk text #the murderbot diaries #network effect spoilers #murderbot #it saying 'let's not be mean' reminded me of how it treats simpler bots

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chelshiart · 1 year

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Network Effect AU!

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot #asshole research transport #murderbot 2.0 #secunit three #secunit #martha wells #network effect spoilers

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