Blurb

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…

Review

Returned back to this sci-fi series for the second installment. This was the follow up to All Systems Red, which I really enjoyed. I jumped this one ahead of the line after seeing Apple TV has a serious adaptation coming out soon. I kind of wish I had read it sooner so All Systems Red was fresher in my mind.

Artificial Condition feels like a middle book that it is. Not so much world building, not so much a fiery climax. It is somewhere in the middle. An adventure story that accomplishes a little, but not a lot. That being said, I enjoy this world enough I plan on getting to Rogue Protocol fairly soon. There are seven books in total in this series. That may seem like a lot, but these are shorter books. The audio versions are just a couple hours a piece.

3 of 5 stars. Higher if you consider the whole of the series, and not this one as a standalone book.