To say I identified with Murderbot would be a gross understatement.
It has anxiety and depression, has no idea what it wants to do with its autonomy, is unendingly self deprecating and sarcastic, and would really rather ignore everything, especially humans, and watch television and movies, read books, and listen to music. Being free of the governor module is an even more terrifying reality for Murderbot. They can be very dangerous, and are considered deadly weapons. SecUnits are armed in the literal sense: they have actual guns in their actual arms. Prior to the start of book one, Murderbot hacked its governor module, and essentially became a free agent, which is a terrifying prospect for humans. SecUnits are sentient and self-aware, but have a governor module which limits their behavior and punishes them for pretty much any act of autonomy. Murderbot is what’s called a construct: half cloned human material, half inorganic technological parts, created to be a SecUnit (Security Unit) and licensed by “the company” on assignments to protect humans doing different jobs in various places like mining operations or scientific surveys on planets. If you’re not familiar with the Murderbot series, it’s hard sci-fi set in a distant future, mostly in space. That kind of repeated deep-dive rarely happens to me. After mainlining the series, I went back to the start and read all five of them again. I read the four novellas in the Murderbot Diaries series, then this novel, in one long reading marathon. Since the beginning of May, I’ve been hanging out with Murderbot.
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