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All Systems Red
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Publisher's Summary
All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
All Systems Red tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern.
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Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
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- Rick
- 10-02-2019
Good fun, well written, good main character
So I've been on a bit of a binge of sentient AI stories over the last couple of years - the Bobiverse series by Dennis E. Taylor, A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, The Imperial Radch by Anne Leckie, probably others. I wasn't sure I wanted to try another one, but the blurb intrigued me and all the others have been so different I gave it a go. I was glad I did. Not amazing writing, but Martha Wells strength is in her main character and her universe.
There are a few negatives - I dislike when I feel like I'm smarter than the characters and can figure out the mystery (or most of it) ahead of them, but it wasn't too bad this time, I'm trying to avoid spoilers so won't say any more. Most of the supporting characters are very one (or maybe two) dimensional. The strengths are many. There's no unnecessary scenes, the author only gives as much info about her universe as is needed for the story, and I really enjoyed the likeable portrayal of the main character. The action wasn't over the top heroic - all violence had a cost to all involved, and - as I said before - no unnecessary scenes.
I wasn't hooked at first on the narrator, he doesn't do voices well IMHO, but I got used to his voice after a while so no real issues there.
Overall this is a great book if you love the sentient AI genre of sci-fi, and a good book if you're ambivalent. At three hours and 17 min it's a little on the short side, so if you hate it then your suffering won't last long. I'm definitely buying the next one.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-08-2019
Way too short for the price
Fine in of itself, had the story kept on for maybe another 5 or 6 hours, it would have gotten a solid 4 stars. my bad for not checking the run time before shelling out my hard earned cash.
The plot is relatively thin, but redeemed by the emotional complexity and quirky internal monologue of the outwardly butch protagonist.
I see a worthwhile movie in there somewhere
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- Dave McKenzie
- 10-06-2019
Autistic robot decides he doesn't want to kill
Concept was engaging but execution poor. The murderbot just didn't seem robotic at all, less of a sentient AI and more of an autistic kid that lucked his way into PMC work. The audio volume varied greatly, performance wasn't too bad though. Definitely not worth the usual price - got it on the daily deal and would've been upset to use a credit on it. Good buy for $2 though
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- Mark Doyle
- 13-12-2018
Humans arnt.to be trusted
Hang out with the humans? or stay in the cargo pod?
mmm....easy choice.
I burned through this audiobook, darkly funny, action packed.
If you are somewhere on the spectrum, gay or just seriously distrust people, this book is for you.
I know who I was barracking for.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-07-2018
Saving the rest of the story for vol 2 I guess
Interesting story but just ends half way through. Tone of narration is a bit meh
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- baz
- 06-01-2021
more a short story
liked it but a short story, not worth full price, shame as main character could be great.
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- james
- 25-05-2019
Great but short
Very funny and worth listening to. But its so short needs to be double the size
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- Bradley Peters
- 07-03-2019
Short, simple, and highly entertaining.
Who doesn't want to hear about the adventures of a disenfranchised murder-bot?
Lot's of fun, the story was quite entertaining, and the world building was interesting enough. I'm only slightly disappointed that the murder-bot was more of a cyborg than a straight-up robot.
There's not a lot of depth as far as exploring how AI's might fit into or interact with society, and the story is relatively unrelated to AIs. I would still very much recommend it as a fun little story.
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- BW
- 18-03-2024
Great character development
For a short story the author does a great job building up the main protagonist. The story is well paced and engaging throughout.
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- mardie lowe
- 09-03-2024
Glad I persisted
It took me a while to connect with the characters and enjoy the story but I am glad I persisted. I appreciated the neurodivergent flavour of Murderbot, with it's literal interpretation of statements and dry humour.
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