{"id":373,"date":"2025-04-26T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-04-26T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:37:20","slug":"the-murderbot-diaries-by-martha-wells-book-series-2017-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Murderbot Diaries&#8217; by Martha Wells, Book Series, (2017-2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-374 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/81UplW0Qb-L._SY466_-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"All Murderbot Diaries book covers\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/81UplW0Qb-L._SY466_-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/johntilden.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/81UplW0Qb-L._SY466_.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 85vw, 189px\" \/>I did an earlier Short Take on the first book in the series.\u00a0 This week in a marathon I read the last four books in the series. Only one was over 250 pages so you don&#8217;t have to be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the last book,<em> System Collapse<\/em>, was intriguing. There was a crucial plot point that &#8216;Murderbot&#8217; came up with that I\u00a0 wouldn&#8217;t expect from someone who doesn&#8217;t consider himself human.<\/p>\n<p>I can see this series going on for a long time, and I am really interested to see how the Murderbot TV show coming out in mid-May on AppleTV gets interpreted.\u00a0 I was trying to catch up on the series before the TV debut and I met my goal a couple of weeks early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did an earlier Short Take on the first book in the series.\u00a0 This week in a marathon I read the last four books in the series. Only one was over 250 pages so you don&#8217;t have to be impressed. I thought the last book, System Collapse, was intriguing. There was a crucial plot point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;The Murderbot Diaries&#8217; by Martha Wells, Book Series, (2017-2023)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}