A chat and maybe a Murderbot?

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Hey guys, it's been a while. Would you like to have a New Year's chat in the Conspiracy Room to catch up? Say the 11th at 2pm CT? 

We could also talk about getting back on the While-She-Knits train. After watching the television adaptation of Martha Well's Murderbot last summer, I knew we needed to do a group reading of this series! 

I believe many of you have already read it, but if you've never heard of Murderbot before, imagine an anti-social, chaos gremlin soap opera fanatic, who happens to have guns for arms, reluctantly protect humans on classical sci-fi adventures. It's amazing. And also, mostly told in novella format, though a couple of the volumes are novel length, so reading the series won't be a huge time commitment. It even has an amazing audiobook.  

Let me know in the comments if you'd like to read and discuss this series. I figure if we start in February we can finish around the same time that the new book, Platform Decay, is set to come out and read that as well.   

Comments

[eachase.livejournal.com]

I'm in! Excited to hear that a new title's coming out.

[eachase.livejournal.com]

P.S. — Happy New Year!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I'm in! I adore those books. I still haven't watched the series, I've been working my way through Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek Strange New Worlds. Once I'm done with those (soon) I'll cancel Paramount and go for Apple TV+. I've heard such good things about the series. Lady Jane, have you read the articles and short stories on the Reactor website (formerly Tor Books site)?

https://reactormag.com/tag/murderbot-recaps/

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

ooh I'd be interested!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Definitely check out the tv series. One of the best book adaptations I've seen yet. Murderbot was one of those things I would've slotted as unadaptable, but they really capitalized on showing that the unreliable narrator is clearly wrong in their perception and using that incogruity for humor. And the stuff they added just feels like the things Murderbot would not have cared to mention in it's diary.

I have read Raport but don't think I've seen the articles. I'll check those out, thanks!