Rapport

73pctGeek reviewed Rapport by Martha Wells

Too short, but very sweet

4 stars

Perihelion and its crew try to carry out their mission at a station in the throes of a hostile takeover.

Rapport is a woefully short, but delightful tale that explores more of the relationships between crew and machine intelligences, and is very sweet. I hope we get more of this in future Murderbot books.

Spoiler warning, no SecUnits appear in this short story. Before reading it, I’d have pooh-poohed the idea of Murderbot story without my beloved protagonist. I want MOAR Murderbot! However, now not only do I love Murderbot with all my heart, but Perihelion too.

reading tofu reviewed Rapport by Martha Wells

ART ART ART

4 stars

Content warning Spoilers

Okay I really liked this. Seeing how Murderbot impacted ART is really interesting.

But what surprised me the most is Iris and ART being siblings‽ Did I miss that in the books? Wtf. This opens so many questions and also puts their relationship into another light of course. Good stuff.

The story itself is not so interesting and mostly a medium to transport ART's new skills and how it (refuses to) talks about meeting murderbot.

enne📚 reviewed Rapport by Martha Wells

4 stars

This short story in the Murderbot universe was released recently, and can be read online on Reactor. Delightfully, it's from Perihelion's point of view after its encounter with Murderbot in Artificial Condition.

I'm not sure that the bones of a story about sneaking into a corporate rim structure had quite enough going on for me, but the underlying delight of this story for me is getting to hear just how affected ART was by its encounter and connection with Murderbot. I think there's just such a power differential between ART and Murderbot, that I'm not sure I ever would have expected it to be so affected if you had made me guess. Getting to hear these feelings (and hear them avoided) from Perihelion's point of view is quite good.

Also, Martha Wells is here making extra sure that you know explicitly that Murderbot is a story about trauma …

This short story in the Murderbot universe was released recently, and can be read online on Reactor. Delightfully, it's from Perihelion's point of view after its encounter with Murderbot in Artificial Condition.

I'm not sure that the bones of a story about sneaking into a corporate rim structure had quite enough going on for me, but the underlying delight of this story for me is getting to hear just how affected ART was by its encounter and connection with Murderbot. I think there's just such a power differential between ART and Murderbot, that I'm not sure I ever would have expected it to be so affected if you had made me guess. Getting to hear these feelings (and hear them avoided) from Perihelion's point of view is quite good.

Also, Martha Wells is here making extra sure that you know explicitly that Murderbot is a story about trauma through and through. This is maybe a snarky aside from me, but given that this story was released at the same time as the end of the first season of the television show, I wonder how much of this is a deliberate poke or a reminder to new audiences. I'm still working through the first season but this critical element seems quite sidelined.

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Rapport

73pctGeek reviewed Rapport by Martha Wells

Too short, but very sweet

4 stars

reading tofu reviewed Rapport by Martha Wells

ART ART ART

4 stars

enne📚 reviewed Rapport by Martha Wells

Rapport

4 stars

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