System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)

As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s

Over ten hours after the conclusion of the Mercury test, as he was watching Mercury’s new ring sparkling on the television, a guard’s voice came over the intercom to tell him that his psychiatrist had arrived for an appointment. “I never asked for any psychiatrist. Send him away!” He felt exasperated, like he had suffered some great indignity. “Don