This time around our SecUnit hero is trying to find out what really happened in that past disaster when all of its clients were killed, maybe by our SecUnit hero itself.

As a rogue murderbot it has to find ways to travel stealthily among humans and this is pretty difficult since it doesn't look or move like a human. Since, you know, it isn't one.

A curious thing about these books is that they're so engrossing and enjoyable despite lacking the kind of tension and conflict that almost always drive such books. Murderbot is pretty much always prepared and more powerful than anyone and anything it comes into conflict with—excepting ART, of course, but ART is immediately and reliably on Murderbot's side.

We're really here for the main character's voice, endlessly exasperated and pessimistic. This is sci-fi action at its most amusing and, well, gentle, despite high body counts and scenes of violence.

As part of this adventure Murderbot ends up intervening in a conspiracy to murder some human scientists. It does revisit the scene of the massacre that's been haunting it as well, but there's still more mystery surrounding it.

I hope Wells can sustain this level!

The first line of Artificial Condition is "SecUnits don't care about the news".