[renewiltord]

This is pretty amusing but true. I enjoyed the series for its quirks (unable to detect many character genders) but it’s very young adulty with focus on social things and stuff. I think the concept of non-human-minds is better explored by Linda Nagata’s series. You can kind of start in the middle with Edges and go with that.

[whimsicalism]

"Young adulty"? As much as I like murderbot, it comes across as quite pulpy in comparison - I don't really find Imperial Radh very YA at all.

[renewiltord]

Haha, I agree with you on Murderbot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301763

And I liked the initial Imperial Radch and I liked the idea of the fracturing empire and the gender bits but my feelings now about it are influenced by some of the characters’ overthinking. Then again, perhaps placing a troop transport sentient ship’s mind into a person gives them terrible social anxiety.

Still, I was recommending it soon after I read it. These are opinions that I have now a long while after.