This is a Perihelion story, not a Murderbot story. You may remember that Perihelion is ART’s real designation and most humans call him Peri.
I thought it was quite nice to have a get to know a little more about ART/Peri when Murderbot isn’t around.
A fun little short story, and really looking forward to more books in this most awesome series.
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I finally dived into The Culture series, and what, you ask, did i think of the first book?
Well, to be honest, it was rather a long, long winded affair that seemed to sprawl on and on while bringing nothing much to the story.
We also had a huge pacing issue. Why, oh why, do writers suddenly get all descriptive and feel the need to waffle on about every nut and bolt holding doors on and stuff during fight/action/battle scenes? This is the sort of thing an editor should pull up and throw the manuscript back at the writer for. What should have been a great, final battle between our protagonists and the Idirans, flies by on the passages that would take ages in the real world while finding ourselves wading through pages of completely unnecessary waffle when all the action starts kicking off, taking ages to read through scenes that would last a minute or two, at most, in the real world.
Annoyingly, there does appear to be a very good story behind all the poor writing, and . . .
. . . so, having trudged through all that, i feel i’m losing myself to a sunk cost fallacy as i’ve started to read The Player of Games in the hope that it’ll somehow be much better written — we shall see.
A magistrate from the Empire returns to the old, worn-out mind-ship she grew up on for a funeral.
We slowly get to know why she left and what she’s going to do about it now that she’s back as a magistrate. Also at large is another mind-ship that the Empire has sent to fix things, can they work together, will things be fixed?
Another good Xuya novella for all you Xuya fans to get into.
Another little Xuya story about one of the people who have access to the virtual overlays of all those on board one of the mind-stations. Imagine if you could look where you shouldn’t, but you wouldn’t, unless you let your guard down.
You can find this in the anthology, Chasing Shadows.
