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Recommendations after the Murder bot Diaries (lemmy.world)

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I'm normally a bit more of a hard scifi reader with the likes of Bobiverse and Expanse (and Andy Weir/Thaichovsky/IanMBanks/Herbert etc) but I really enjoyed this humerous take on a rogue cyborg.

Is there anything out there in this vane I should look into?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Stainless Steel Rat is an excellent shoutout.

The Scarlett and Brown series is about outlaws on the run in a slave society, has similar bursts of violence, deeply scarred main characters, and somewhat snide narrator.

I read Ann Leckie's series that starts with Ancillary Justice around the same time and it tickled a lot of the same places in my head as Murderbot, in that it's about a construct forced into violence that then escapes to move in the human world with its own agenda. Very different in tone, pacing, and scope though.