Reseña: All Systems Red

All Systems Red 

by  

Martha Wells

 144 pages

Published May 2nd 2017 by Tor.com

ISBN: 0765397528 (ISBN13: 9780765397522)

Edition Language: English

 

BLURB: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Largo: novella-

Human clients usually like to pretend I’m a robot and that’s much easier in the armor. I let my eyes unfocus and pretended I was running a diagnostic on something.

Un SecUnit, androide de seguridad provisto por la Compañia, vigila sus humanos mientras realizan labores de mustreo y catálogo en un planeta, se mantiene al margen de toda la interaccion descargando y mirando horas de videos y libros de entretenimiento. Pero cuando hay problemas en el planeta, con gran renuencia se ve obligado a hacer algo más de lo necesario.

Lo curioso del caso es que Wells conjura un personaje no-humano con el que gran mayoria de sus lectores pueden identificarse. Tan sólo quieren que le dejen en paz.

It’s wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do. What I should do. What I needed to do.

Un ambiente extraño, y cosas que fallan en la expedición. Algo de cliche, pero las intereacciones son interesantes, sobre todo el que se llama a si mismo Murderbot. Vale la pena leerlo.

Adventure and greed in space . A minor plot and mystery. Danger and out-of-character AI. What more could do you want? ;)

Martha Wells es una de mis escritoras favoritas, ecuerden ver la serie Raksura :)

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