The first Murderbot TV series season was based on the first very short Murderbot novel — so I wondered whether this second (very short) novel was going to be as dense as the first one. (I guess they call it “a novella”, but it felt more like a short novel to me…)
But it’s not. I wonder whether they’re going to attempt to pad this one out to ten episodes as well?
The first fifty pages are basically Murderbot having an internal conversation with a space ship, so that’s not very easy to transport to a TV screen at all. I guess they could add a couple crew members to the ship, and make the ship intelligence into a robot…
Anyway, the last hundred pages are very action packed, so perhaps they’ll try to just streeetch the backstory of the various characters? I’ll be impressed if they can get that to work.
Anyway, this isn’t quite as good as the first book, but it’s really, really entertaining anyway. I guess I’ll be buying the rest of the series… How many are there anyway?
Eight! Well, that’s nice.
And… I think it’s time for me to read a longer book next.
Artificial Condition (2018) by Martha Wells (buy new, buy used, 4.25 on Goodreads)