Reseña: Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3)

Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3)

by  

Martha Wells

158 pages

Published August 7th 2018 by Tor.com

ISBN:1250191785 (ISBN13: 9781250191786)

Edition Language:English

Series:The Murderbot Diaries #3

 

BLURB: SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is.
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

 

My rating: 3.5 spacial station stars

Esta es la tercera parte de los Diarios de Murderbot, el cyber de seguridad que tiene una extraña relación con su protocolo y con los humanos. Explora un mundo de exploradores espaciales donde parece que nadie ha escuchado hablar de Skynet (de Terminator)  er, cof... donde se explora el despertar de esta conciencia en una entidad cibernética mientras viaja con determinación como polizón por transportes automatizados.

Mientras esta en viaje las noticias le avisan que se le busca porque se le da con paradero desconocido, y aun sin ser de la compañia esto de tener un SecUnit armado por ahi a nadie le hace gracia (esas peliculas y series que tanto le gustan a MB tienen la culpa de ello, ya saben :P ) Y... de paso se entera

que la misma empresa minera que les fastidió antes se ha echado un proyecto de terraformación asi que va para allá pensando en obtener pruebas de sus malas prácticas en busqueda ilegal de restos de civilizaciones no-humanas.

Tras un breve interludio donde se ve como fácil que es gatillarle su sentido de protección hacia los humanos (a pesar de sus originales tendencias antisociales) esto sigue primando en su programación. Y luego vaya, se hace pasar por un guardaespaldas humano con implantes artificiales para seguir a otro grupo que va a Milu. Y conoce a MIKI el robot-amigable : wuakala (esto, segun el Murderbot) Desde que los humanos le traten en forma afable y que él les trate en forma ingenua le descoloca.

Como en toda esta serie de novelas cortas, lo mejor es esto de su trato con humanos sus ideas de ellos, y sobre todo lo que piensa de otros bots. 

En este volumen hay mucha acción, de la variedad que las pelis y series de ciencia ficcion nos tienen acostumbrados:

El personaje poseia encanto actuando en forma antisocial y algo antropofobica, curiosamente se siente aun más humano actuando en forma anti-bot, o cuando de bots de lo que desaprueba por ser demasiado ingenuos y no actuar por su cuenta, esta contradicción que se ve al actuar en forma algo desdeñosa con los sex-bots, se ve más con este bot, Miki, que actua en forma aniñada y complaciente con los humanos, (incluso los mercenarios no lo ven como una amenaza). SPOILERS---->Vive hablando que no confia en bots porque siguen órdenes de los humanos o deben seguir órdenes de los humanos, pero actua en forma muy en contra del sexbot y luego se siente traicionado por Miki cuando este le cuenta a Don que es 'Rin' y no uno contratado por 'Seguridad Rin'.<----SPOILERS

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Mi review original en Goodreads:

While on transit , Murderbot is still worry about the interest of the news after a one rogue SecUnit , so decides to take another route - this time to uncover some probably cover up of the same company that tried to wrong the group of PreservationAux. So our hitchhiker/stowaway-bot get aboard some transports, shake it electronics wondering about foolish indentured laborers humans, and finally ends aboard a transport with a group going to Milu, an aborted terraforming project. There it meets a ... shuders... friendly pet bot called Miki.

Before Dr. Mensah bought me, I could count the number of times I sat on a human chair and it was never in front of clients.
I don’t even know why I was reacting this way. Was I jealous of a human-form bot? I didn’t want to be a pet robot, that’s why I’d left Dr. Mensah and the others. (Not that Mensah had said she wanted a pet SecUnit. I don’t think she wanted a SecUnit at all.) What did Miki have that I wanted? I had no idea. I didn’t know what I wanted.
And yes, I know that was probably a big part of the problem right there.

The relationship between different bots and humans, and bot to bot , is again the best story material, but I'm certain that Murderbot is not the only one that sorely miss ART.

SPOILERS---->

MB seems not to understand Miki, and behaves badly with it, and also has selfish thoughts, is childish and even jealous. Even dissmisive.

(A few time ago, when we discussed the behavior of MB with other people, we talked about its neural tissue, but this Miki does not have cloned human tissues, according to the story. Can this bot be able to have feelings, or love for someone from his group like Don Abene? Is that within it programming and to what end? one would say that the logic in a working robot above all is essential in a scientific group, why should other human beings seek to find emotions to feel loved by someone who is essentially a machine and not a pet?)

There was also a human-form bot standing nearby. I hadn’t seen one in a while in person, just on the entertainment feed. They aren’t popular in corporation territory, because there’s not a lot of things they can do that task-specific bots can’t do better, and with the feed available their data storage and processing ability isn’t that exciting. Unlike constructs, they don’t have any cloned human tissue, so they’re just a bare metal bot-body that can pick up heavy things, except not as well as a hauler bot or any other kind of cargo lifter.

<----SPOILERS[MB seems not to understand Miki, and behaves badly with it, and also has selfish thoughts, is childish and even jealous. Even dissmisive.

(A few time ago, when we discussed the behavior of MB with other people, we talked about its neural tissue, but this Miki does not have cloned human tissues, according to the story. Can this bot be able to have feelings, or love for someone from his group like Don Abene? Is that within it programming and to what end? one would say that the logic in a working robot above all is essential in a scientific group, why should other human beings seek to find emotions to feel loved by someone who is essentially a machine and not a pet?)

There was also a human-form bot standing nearby. I hadn’t seen one in a while in person, just on the entertainment feed. They aren’t popular in corporation territory, because there’s not a lot of things they can do that task-specific bots can’t do better, and with the feed available their data storage and processing ability isn’t that exciting. Unlike constructs, they don’t have any cloned human tissue, so they’re just a bare metal bot-body that can pick up heavy things, except not as well as a hauler bot or any other kind of cargo lifter.

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There is a quote of action very scifi-movie style too.

-My Problem: the numbers of "its" got me confused when referenced when 'it' were interacting. I don't know what it is doing what sometimes.

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[Vive hablando que no confia en bots porque siguen órdenes de los humanos o deben seguir órdenes de los humanos, pero actua en forma muy en contra del sexbot y luego se siente traicionado por Miki cuando este le cuenta a Don que es 'Rin' y no uno contratado por 'Seguridad Rin'. (hide spoiler)]

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