#artificial conditions

[twacn]

Listening to WTNV's Company Picnic and the Murderbot audiobooks litterally back to back, independently being delighted by the voice acting, and being shocked by the info that it's the SAME ACTOR. Wild experience. Pov you are reminded of the craft of voice acting and the wonders of art!!

[fearless-seagull]

Pushing my ART is a giant scary spider agenda

[ghostcashewart]

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[desultorydenouement]

murderbot is peak queer rep because it’s about living as an inherently transgressive form of being, it’s about the complexity of passing, or the complexity of hiding, or the nuance of never fitting binaries and not wanting to even when fitting those binaries is seen as “better”, and it’s about making people uncomfortable just by existing, it’s about measuring forms of freedom and having to decide which you’ll save and which you’ll sacrifice. but most importantly it’s peak queer rep because murderbot is free for like five minutes and it immediately attracts the nearest supposedly-rare transgressive-illegal-superbot (ART) in a hundred light year radius to be its best friend, and what’s that if not your classic Queer On Queer Magnetism

[bearmakesart]

This is so dumb i cant

^pov mb hacking everything within a five mile radius every time it gets the chance

[wiklm]

murderbot and ART first meeting u will always be famous 2 me..

[johntherobotwanderer]

murderbot singlehandedly rekindling my love for drawing?? no way

[brawltogethernow]

ART: Hey I know we just stopped arguing two minutes ago but do you want a makeover (revs surgical saw)

[wubbelwubbwubb]

How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?

[angeliquecloud]

“Six episode later I felt the transport in the feed again, lurking.”

I love MB and ART’s relationship

I decided ART is a ghostly dragon to me, the ship is its lair and its crew is its hoard.

[as21-7]

[l3viathanss]

Thai editions of All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy

[ghostcashewart]

how many pings will it take for secunit to stop sulking?

[fascinatedfinch]

Let me in, said ART.

(fill for Whumptober "Spirit possession")

[readinginmars]

"Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on."

Artificial Condition - Martha Wells