Thursday, December 27, 2018
Compulsory, by Martha Wells
Compulsory is a story from the Murderbot Diaries, the first of which was All Systems Red. The story is very consistent--our angsty teenage Murderbot defies its programming and inclinations to be more humane than allowed, and saves the humans it is charged mostly to protect from each other. It's a decent story, I'm just still cheesed by how All Systems Red managed to win an award while neither of Sarah Pinsker's excellent, thoughtful SF stories got a smell. Anyway, if you like All Systems Red you will want to read this.
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