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Martha Wells

  • rottenbeautyhas quoted14 days ago
    As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.
  • rottenbeautyhas quoted14 days ago
    I yelled, “No!” which I’m not supposed to do; I’m always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they’re about to accidentally commit suicide.
  • Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast year
    She’s a really good commander. I’m going to hack her file and put that in.
  • Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast year
    I wanted to seal my helmet so badly my organic parts started to sweat, but I replayed the conversation with Mensah and managed not to.
  • Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast year
    My jaw was so tight it triggered a performance reliability alert in my feed. I said, “You don’t need to look at me. I’m not a sexbot.”
  • Miek Messerschmidthas quotedlast year
    I was also planning to use the time to watch some Sanctuary Moon and recharge my ability to cope with humans at close quarters without losing my mind.
  • Manali Hawarehas quotedlast year
    Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?
  • Anahas quotedlast year
    I asked the cargo bot if I could go inside the transport before it inserted the new empty module. It said sure.

    (Humans never think to tell their bots things like, say, don’t respond to random individuals wandering the outside of the station. Bots are instructed to report and repel theft attempts, but no one ever tells them not to answer polite requests from other bots.)
  • Anahas quotedlast year
    (Possibly I was overthinking this. I do that; it’s the anxiety that comes with being a part-organic murderbot. The upside was paranoid attention to detail. The downside was also paranoid attention to detail.)
  • Anahas quotedlast year
    I did a quick walk-through to scan for anomalies, then dropped my bag and lay down on the bed. (It was huge. Why have a bed that
    could easily accommodate four medium to large humans when you only had one hook for towels in the bath facility? Were the humans supposed to share the towel?)
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