Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy closes Murderbot’s initial arc with a rescue and some catharsis. Dr. Mensah, leader of the expedition from the first book, has been abducted by GrayCris, and it’s up to Murderbot to create and execute Plan Not Actually Terrible to free her from corporate clutches.

It’s pretty solid, fun snark as you might expect, but the basic problem of the series is that too much of it takes place in the airspace of departure lounges and the generic non-space of cyberspace/the Feed, which robs the action of stakes and grounding.

Apparently the series continues with a novel, but I think this is my off-ramp. I don’t dislike Murderbot, but whatever other people see in it that’s so great I miss entirely.