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| Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
| Publication date | June 4, 2024 |
| Print length | 373 pages |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4⭐ / 2,967 ratings |
Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.
To fix the world they must first break it, further.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.
When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away.
Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming.
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Sometimes a little slow and dry, but everything he writes matters. There isn't an opportunity where another word would add to the story or where the deletion of the word wouldn't detract from the story.
His characters are mostly multifaceted and have a combination of traits that are expressed vs. being mono-characteristic in motivation and action.
Actions have weight and consequences. I never feel like someone or something survives because of plot armor. I never feel like someone or something dies as a trope. The continuation or cessation of characters always makes sense to me.
His world building is, for me, the example of what perfect world building should be. With no better demonstration of this than The Doors of Eden where as an intro to every few chapters, he writes and describes the evolution of an entirely different Earth. And they all make sense. The physical and environmental factors meaningfully impact cultural norms.