Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Possibly I should just stop complaining like a human and get on with it.”

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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CBR 13 Bingo: Machinery Fugitive Telemetry fills the gap between the ending of the fourth Murderbot novella, Exit Strategy, and the follow up full length novel Network Effect.  As such it helps bridge Murderbot’s development, from the uncertainty of suddenly becoming a free individual to the more confident, and comfortable in their role, Murderbot of Network Effect.  Physically size wise, Fugitive Telemetry is on par with the other novellas, however, it felt more like a short story to me.  Perhaps that has to do with the action […]

“All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist.”

Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells

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**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 13/30 I love Murderbot and I hope that I always will. What I love about these stories, beyond the immediate appeal of an outwardly misanthropic and antisocial being fighting its own feelings and personhood, is that as they go on, Wells seems to be showing that Murderbot is not just a one story kind of murder-construct (aka not that at all), but one that can play around in different genres. No one will convince me that the full-length novel […]

Only nineteen pages but I’ll take every last one

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells

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This actually ended up being my 100th reading challenge book, as it were. And I’m counting this as Pride!Reading as well–Murderbot is aro ace and non-binary, innit? FINALLY got my hands on this book, I have never bought something so quickly based on an email. I will read anything from the Murderbot universe, and basically live in misery that these stories aren’t longer T-T Here, for the first time, we’re seeing things from the perspective of Dr. Mensah, fresh off of her kidnap rescue in Exit […]

Murderbot is back and hosin’ hostiles once again, baybee

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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Murderbot, my misanthropic friend! Welcome back- back to the PAST! There had been a lot of scuttlebutt floating around telling us that this would be a novella (hooray- I think the novel format dragged the last entry down), and that it would be a prequel. Hmmm. A prequel? Right after a satisfying promise of adventures with returning beloved characters? Booo! Once again, I stand by eating my big ol’ helping of crow pie while Martha Wells proves, once again, that I should trust the author […]

A SecUnit’s work is never done

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

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Fugitive Telemetry, the latest novella in the excellent Murderbot series by Martha Wells, has our faithful, snarky Murderbot on Preservation Station, guarding the humans it saved in the last book, attempting to relax watching Sanctuary Moon and growing perhaps a bit bored when, alas, a dead human appears. Excuse me, a “deceased human” as our dear SecUnit is repeatedly told to say. Dead human sounds..too blunt…too icky, which Muderbot hilariously reminds us is very true. Humans, dead or alive are constantly eating, secreting, smelling up […]

ART is everyone’s favorite

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

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Re-read review: I am currently #70 on the list of holds for book number 6 in the Murderbot series (Fugitive Telemetry) so at this sedate pace I should be able to re-read the entire series by the time it finally comes off of hold. Interestingly enough I was more so-so on Murderbot 1 (All Systems Red) the first time around and much more gung ho the second. This time, I was ever so slightly less into Murderbot’s adventures, but some review of my feelings later I realize […]



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