{"id":261,"date":"2020-05-06T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:02:06","slug":"book-rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/06\/book-rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Rogue Protocol (the Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-7.49.31-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265\" width=\"594\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-7.49.31-PM-1.png 401w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-06-at-7.49.31-PM-1-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption>Cover of Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Rogue Protocol (the Murderbot Diaries)<br><\/em><\/strong>by Nancy Wells<br>published by <a href=\"https:\/\/publishing.tor.com\/\">Tor<\/a><br>2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you know by now, <em>I love me some Murderbot.<\/em>  Martha Wells&#8217; stories about an unauthorized \/ independent, telenovela-addicted android-cyborg security unit trying to understand its situation and cope with fragile humans who put themselves into dangerous situations are delightful, and <a href=\"https:\/\/publishing.tor.com\/rogueprotocol-marthawells\/9781250191786\/\">this is the third novella in the set<\/a>.  There is a full length book that was released THIS WEEK, and so of course I am changing my strategy from doling the novellas out to myself slowly to catching up quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this exciting episode, Murderbot has a suspicion that its favorite human could use some evidence against the corporation that tried to kill her and her team.  So, being a very direct kind of SecUnit, it goes to the scene of a potential crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are bots! Drones! Weapons! Heavy equipment! Various combinations of nice and dastardly humans!  The story maintains an engaging pace, is well-written, and&#8230; is it just me, or is Murderbot developing a soft spot for people?  No, I don&#8217;t mean where it was shot or caught all that shrapnel, I mean&#8230;  oh, I can&#8217;t spoil it for you.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is another fun episode. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogue Protocol (the Murderbot Diaries)by Nancy Wellspublished by Tor2018 As you know by now, I love me some Murderbot. Martha Wells&#8217; stories about an unauthorized \/ independent, telenovela-addicted android-cyborg security unit trying to understand its situation and cope with fragile humans who put themselves into dangerous situations are delightful, and this is the third novella &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/06\/book-rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries-by-martha-wells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: Rogue Protocol (the Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}