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Artificial Condition
Science fiction
Artificial Condition
Book 2 of the The Murderbot Diaries series
Murderbot secretly leaves its clients and travels to the mining facility where its earliest memories became corrupted. It recruits the research transport ART as an abrasive but unexpectedly helpful ally and adopts a human disguise for the investigation. Discovering what happened to its former crew forces it to confront guilt built on incomplete evidence. Fast, funny, and surprisingly tender, this novella suits a travel day for readers who enjoy sarcastic artificial intelligence, reluctant friendship, corporate danger, and mysteries of personal identity.
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Gun and combat violence; murder and deaths; kidnapping and captivity; body injury and medical detail; corporate exploitation; anxiety/trauma; mild language.
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