Rogue Protocol

Ah, murderbot, the most human of literary AI's. Our favourite introverted AI continues its quest to find out what led to its current situation. Again our AI has adopted some humans that find themselves out of their depth, this time whilst investigating a terraforming station that has been abandoned. Finding it less abandoned than initially thought leads to a nice level of tension and danger. This is probably the tightest plotted of the Murderbot stories I have read so far.

Ultimately, it is the extremely sympathetic portrayal of our protagonist that wins through. Our murderbot really would rather nothing else than sitting on their own watching dodgy TV serials, but events keep on causing them to be the hero. A supremely human portrayal of AI