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Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired by georgeecollins on Monday December 02, 2024 @01:22PM (#42298814)
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is also very good imo.
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Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired by moomin on Monday December 02, 2024 @01:56PM (#42299164)
Honestly that’s the book I recommend to anyone who thinks Heinlein, Asimov and Niven are all there is to good sci-fi.
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Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired by loeg on Monday December 02, 2024 @08:31PM (#42302175)
YMMV. I found it pretty tedious, especially the 2nd in the series (Children of Ruin). I liked Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series (Shards of Earth, etc) better.
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Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:46AM (#42304507)
I think Final Architecture was a better story, but the background and philosophy in the Children series is very very good indeed.
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Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired by lproven on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:58AM (#42327783)
> I found it pretty tedious

100% this. I am not at all arachnophobic -- I like spiders, I find them cute and fascinating. They were the only interesting characters in the book. The humans were all vile and the human scenes dull dull dull.

I really stuggled to finish the book and do not plan to return to the sequels.

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Re:Murderbot, She Wrote. Martha Wells Article on Wired by jamesog on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @12:12PM (#42308510)
Children of Time needs to come with a huge content warning for those with arachnophobia. I got through it, but I didn't enjoy it, for that reason.
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