#spoilers for System Collapse

[pizzazz-party]

System Collapse: at this rate the corporates are going to shut down this planet and enslave its people as salvage… unless we put on the biggest talent show this town has ever seen.

[dersitesans]

spoilers for the latest Murderbot book but-

the humans used by Barish-Estranza as auxiliary hub systems are metal as fuck. goddamn.

How do i get that job and then break free so i can have all kinds of hands-free internet access??

and normally i'd continue in the tags but- this is such a cool worldbuilding expansion!! SecUnit is soooo convinced that no human or augmented human could handle multiple inputs like it can. Yet here are these humans that just might be able to do even more than it can! (probably have comparable or greater storage space for one thing, and their neural tissue would likely be better adapted for recalling information)

[heyitsrink]

Thinking about a young Perihelion babysitting Iris and crying forever.

[wigglybunfish]

I know they’re the same, it’s all just Peri. That the drone will be repaired and the next time we need it, it’ll be the same. But still, when something happens like this, it scares me. I just don’t want to lose any piece of Peri, you know?

I know, I said. And I did know, and now I was having an emotion.

From System Collapse, Chapter 11.

Original line art is here

[crispinkiss]

did you know i have to draw the characters or ill die

[murderbot-moodboard]

[keydekyie]

Go you funky little SecUnit! Go!

(One of my favorite scenes from the newest Murderbot novel: System Collapse)

[mockingnerd]

I finished System Collapse and this is all I can offer at this time

[idiosyncreant]

The most autistic joke in System Collapse is actually when MB says “Give me a minute”, AdaCol2 says “Mark time, 60 seconds” and you’re like LOL, it didn’t mean it literally, silly hub system

And then at 60 seconds, AdaCol2 pings and MB did mean it literally

[douche-canoe-regatta]

OH OKAY

[pdanno]

delighted by the fact a non preservation human has to deal with murderbot surveillance state. this is so bizarrely funny to me. ur minding ur business and suddenly a drone is analyzing you because you’re making an emotion and the weirdo construct is autistically breaking it down

[le-trash-prince]

It’s been two days and I am still thinking about You know I am not kind. There is just so much of ART’s character wrapped up in this line.

[torpublishinggroup]

Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission. 

Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far. 

Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency. 

Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce. 

But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!

[140smashedguitars]

network effect truly got to me. murderbot's meltdown after thinking art was dead but then immediately pivoting to shit talking it when it comes back, everyone seeing that murderbot and art care about each other but murderbot refusing to admit it, murderbot and art having a code baby!, murderbot becoming amena's third mum, three my sweet summer child, "peri", "peri's" secunit, art cleaning itself up to be presentable for mensah, and of course

art threatening to blow up a fucking PLANET, with everyone willing to risk their lives, including three who hasn't even met murderbot, to get murderbot back, because it is so fucking important to all of them. and murderbot not even being able to comprehend this because it still views itself as expendable

this is definitely one of my favourite books and i really wanna re read it even though i have so much other stuff to read. this book just means so much to me, i love it and i was so happy to see art again

[wigglybunfish]

Handoff initiated.

[mothshrub]

Just say no