Fugitive Telemetry

A great murder mystery that is fascinating yet told with humour.

This entry in the series fills in a gap in the ongoing overall story (is it a “between-quel”?) and really rounds out the character.

I'd love to read more stories with “Murderbot”* as a straight-up detective.

* For those of you who think I've gone insane, let me clarify that the “Murderbot” who narrates these stories is Security Unit (a human-looking organic/machine robot - think Arnie in Terminator but asexual). This Security Unit has examined it's functions and disapproved, it doesn't mind keeping its clients safe, but it doesn't like the fact that it may be ordered to kill things - so it decided its name was Murderbot and proceeded to hack its own programming.

Now Murderbot doesn't have to obey commands (especially the murdery kind) - it has freedom. With this freedom it carried on doing the day job of keeping humans safe but now secretly downloads TV series to binge watch whenever it's left alone. In its own words:

“It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”