Well, that was most pleasing and I will be reading it again very soon. A very useful purchase and it will join my “comfort re-reading" queue immediately.
I was fortunate to be warned that System Collapse follows directly after Network Effect. From the very first page, I was dumped right back into the politics of a newly rediscovered planet with alien remnant contamination. Perihelion (aka ART) and its personnel vs Barrish Estranza corporation, with the addition of the Preservation citizens and our beloved Murderbot.
Murderbot is learning in this module that having human neural tissue is both a plus and a minus. Yes, it can let you learn (from experience or from media) but it can also fuck with you via the imagination. Although imagination can be a wonderful source of ideas and creative solutions, it can also incapacitate its wielder by envisioning horrific possibilities.
As Murderbot fights with its current worries, it never forgets its responsibilities to the humans. It may not “have" to obey them, but it definitely wants to keep them alive and undamaged. It seems to have come to terms with the fact that they want to take care of it, too. And it is also accepting the sheer number of humans that it now feels protectively about.
You'd never guess it from the length of time I fooled around with this novella, but these books read really fast. Now I begin the wait for the next installment. My performance assessment rating may drop several percent until the publishing schedule is announced.
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