Book Review
Title: Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries Book 0.5) by Martha Wells
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 3 Stars
Compulsory was a very short story about Murderbot’s life before the events of All Systems Red when it is a SecUnit for a mining operation which it hates. It knows that there is a 53% chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract and it doesn’t really care choosing to spend most of its time silent, watching its favourite serials instead of interacting with the humans. However, one day a woman falls down one of the shafts by accident and it decides to rescue her although Murderbot doesn’t know why it came to this conclusion.
During the rescue he has to talk to the woman in order to give her instructions but they both make it out safe and sound but we get to see first hand how many people believe the SecUnits to be robots rather than something that is half robot, half organic meaning it does have thoughts and feelings the same as we do. Overall, Compulsory was an interesting addition to the series especially after I had already read All Systems Red and it helps us get to know Murderbot a little better but I would have like to have seen more of this particular contract as it seemed very interesting and Murderbot’s monologue would have been hilarious.
Also see: All Systems Red
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