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  1. Public Bookmark 38

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    Things have been awkward between ART and Murderbot since a new crewmember asked an uncomfortably personal question. ART has a plan, though: if it wants its SecUnit to stop running away from it, it will have to give it something to fight, instead.

    I wish you could try is from Murderbot's perspective as it tries to punch ART's new drone in the face.

    Show me how you want it to be is from ART's perspective, as the two of them finally try to discuss what they are to one another.

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    25 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 16

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    Five times SecUnit was given a gift, and one time it gave a gift.

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    22 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 10

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    I skim the instruction document and pull the complex code file into the station’s processing space. I don’t think I’ve ever been this anxious for something to work, for something to happen. I know I’ve never been this desperate. Please—

    The lights flicker, shutting off for hardly even a second before they turn back on, and maybe it’s just me and my faulty-ass organic parts and the emotional breakdown I’m maybe probably definitely having, but it feels like the air is different. It feels like—

     

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    A coda/minor rewrite for (mostly) ch. 7–8 in Network Effect.

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    22 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    20 Oct 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    “Can I come? Please?” Huck asked.

    I hesitated. There was so much trust in that question, but it felt bittersweet, since I’d done so little to earn it. I’d wanted to do more, but with every act of affection or fierce protection curtailed by the governor module, I’d been little more than a reassuring presence.

    As Huck looked up at me, his chin dripping tears, I realized how much I valued that trust. I had an answer to a question I’d never been free to ask: What did I want?

    After its governor module is hacked, Nova risks its new freedom by returning to the mining installations of RaviHyral to search for Astra, Tlacey’s other ComfortUnit.

    Along the way, Nova will encounter an abandoned SecUnit, an illicit troupe of performers dramatizing the injustice of the Corporation Rim, and Tlacey’s son, Huck, a child who is also in need of a chance at freedom from the cruelty of Rim life.

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    19 Oct 2025