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Activation Degradation
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic stand-alone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra.
When Unit Four - a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere - is activated for the first time, it’s in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth’s largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat.
But something’s wrong. Unit Four doesn’t feel quite right.
There are files in its databanks it can’t account for, unusual chemical combinations roaring through its pipes, and the primers it possesses on the aliens are suspiciously sparse. The robot is under orders to seek and destroy. That’s all it knows.
According to its handler, that’s all it needs to know.
Determined to fulfill its directives, Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it’s about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, reprograming, and interstellar conflict.
Most robots are simple tools. Unit Four is well on its way to becoming something more....
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- marcus
- 2024-02-22
Strong concept, good execution
This one is pretty unique. It feels like it successfully pulls off being a smaller scale, small stakes kind of story while at the same time touching on the bigger scope of an interesting setting. The character work was good. It's fast paced. There are a lot of neat ideas going on. The mysteries and unknowns of the main character play out in a neat way. No complaints here and it was everything I wanted from an audiobook. Satisfying overall. Worth the listen.
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