I have been reading a vast amount of popular science in the past month or so, nearly all brilliant, of course – what else would you expect New Scientist‘s culture editor to say? But it has also been wonderful to take myself out of the real world with a slice of sci-fi from Martha Wells, All Systems Red (pictured above).
The first in Wells’s The Murderbot Diaries series, it introduces us to Murderbot, a part-robot, part-organic security unit that has overridden its programming and prefers to spend its time catching up on TV, while feeling obliged to protect…
