Time To Read

Thanks for joining us! This month we’re discussing All Systems Red by Martha Wells. The self-named Murderbot doesn’t really want to stop binge-watching media content long enough to do its boring security job for a bunch of humans surveying an unknown planet. But when an unknown life-form attacks one of the team, Murderbot is forced to start paying attention. When the humans try to talk to it, ask it questions and, worst of all, treat it like a person, Murderbot must confront its own social anxieties and self-consciousnesses, all the while trying to solve the mystery of what or who is trying to kill them all. In This Episode We Mention Unbury the Future Martha Wells’s full speech from the 2017 World Fantasy Awards Novel Finding: Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy Bonus short story: Online version of Compulsory: A Murderbot Story in Wired Magazine (set before All Systems Red). Our Favourite Media Content Erica: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Kirsten: Broadchurch, Top of the Lake Alan: Moneyball, Gattacca, Donnie Dar