Platform Decay

I hope for our sake it takes a lot! Not a huge character arc for Murderbot, but the so-apropos metaphor of being stuck on a "huge stupid torus" is good enough to give weight to the requisite multi-threaded rollicking adventure.

Murderbot visits Space Disneyland

Platform Decay feels like a bit of a "side story" imo, similar to Fugitive Telemetry. I kind of like that there are some stories where Murderbot just helps some people though, without necessarily saving a planet or taking down a corporation or making Big Discoveries about its past. It also helps with the pacing of the series as a whole when every book doesn't need to be even more epic than the previous one. Also Murderbot needs time to process its trauma after a Big One.

It's interesting to get a glimpse into more of "normal" corporation space (i.e. not labor camps or transit rings).

I like that Three had a very slightly bigger role, and I'm hoping we get even more of that in the future - I'd even enjoy some Three-centric stories, similar to how Rapport was about Perihelion and its team.

Overall, I loved it, and I'm ready for more!