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Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries (The Murderbot Diaries, 2)

A USA Today bestseller

The "I love Murderbot!" --Ann Leckie

Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red

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 vessel 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...

The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red
Artificial Condition
Rogue Protocol
Exit Strategy
Network Effect
Fugitive Telemetry
System Collapse

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160 pages

Average rating: 7.97

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Margaret.n.f
Apr 05, 2024
9/10 stars
Hard not to love this robot!
yenjii
Jan 25, 2024
8/10 stars
This picks up immediately after where All Systems Red (first in the Murderbot diaries) ends, and makes multiple references to it, so you will need to read it imo.

I enjoyed learning more about Murderbot in this sequel - its such a disinterested, moody yet entirely capable badass security unit confirmed, and it just wants to understand it's often history.

Whilst I'm glad Murderbot made a new friend, I didn't find the interactions with ART, a very intelligent bot, as enjoyable and funny as Murderbots interactions with it's humans in All Systems Red. But they were still fun, and what else could you expect from interactions between a construct and a bot.

I think what prevented this from being 5 stars for me was the sub plot with the humans - it felt disconnected from Murderbots self discovery journey, and I wasn't all that interested.
margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
8/10 stars
Fun continuation of the series. In this installment we find our narrator on the lam. He is searching too found the truth behind the incident at the mine. And finds himself allied too another bot that is a bit anthropomorphic like he is. They seem to be a good team.
Anonymous
Dec 04, 2023
8/10 stars
In the 2nd book, Artificial Condition, he’s a free bot and he decides he needs to go to the place where he murdered 50+ people. Ah, yes, this is why he’s called Murderbot. His governor chip supposedly went wonky and he killed everyone on the mission. Supposedly. He’s out to find out if that’s true. Enter in ART, the Asshole Research Transport, who wants to be his friend, more humans that require saving and interrupt his soap opera time, and sex bots.

The books are short but amazing! Murderbot is full of non-bot emotions and just can’t seem to catch a break to watch his media alone.

So. Much. Fun.
Anonymous
May 01, 2023
8/10 stars
I am really enjoying Wells take on the adventures of a not-so-murderous Murderbot. His thoughts are quite funny and make you wonder how future robots and AI will perceive our world.

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