Activation Degradation
Paperback 384 pages English September 28, 2021
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The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligencethrough the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, andNoumenon Ultra.When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored highabove the Jovian atmosphere--is activated for the first time, it's in crisismode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and nowits sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invadersin ship-to-ship combat. But something's wrong. Unit Four doesn't feel quite right. There are files in its databanks it can't account for, unusual chemical combinations roaring through its pipes, and the primers itpossesses on the aliens are suspiciously sparse. The robot is under orders toseek and destroy. That's all it knows. According to its handler, that's all it needs toknow.Determined to fulfill its directives, Unit Four launches itsship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in adownward spiral of misinformation, reprograming, and interstellar conflict. Most robots are simple tools. Unit Four is well on its wayto becoming something more....
- Author:
- Marina J. Lostetter
- Publisher:
- Harper Voyager
- Publication Date:
- September 28, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 384 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0062895745
- ISBN-13:
- 9780062895745