My Goodreads Review: System Collapse

[ankh_hpl]

System Collapse by Martha Wells

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This actually appears to be the rest of Network Effect, the previous Murderbot Diary, & I really wish it could have all been released together. As I had not reread the previous Diary before starting this one, I felt incredibly confused as we were plunged into the middle of what is essentially a novel-length rescue story. (I "read" this one on Audible, which may not have helped, although the narration was excellent.)

Murderbot itself continues to be the shining star of this series, & as ever I loved its interactions with the many other nonhuman actors -- as well as the humans -- in this novel. This series does more than almost any SF I'm aware of to give readers a full sense of nonhuman /constructed entities as full personalities in their own right. I wanted to like System Collapse more than I did, & I will continue to follow the series avidly . . . but I just couldn't get past the feeling of being in the middle of Part 2 with no warning. YMMV, as always.




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Comments

[mount_oregano]

I had the same problem. I did read Network Effect, but I forgot most of it, so I was lost until I took it out and re-read the last chapters.

Otherwise, great good fun!