![]() ![]() We also get ART (an AI from the second novella, sorely missed since) back, and that in itself is a point in favour, as ART’s overbearing know-it-all disposition and authoritarian tendencies always make for a good counterweight to Murderbot’s gloomy Eyeore personality. In Network Effect, Wells gets to create a more elaborate and meaningful plot, full of the ugly f-word (feelings, for those who hadn’t met Murderbot yet) balanced by significant amounts of action. And I must say I enjoyed it quite a lot, definitely more than some of the previous novellas as well as (spoiler alert) the sequel. With Network Effect, I finally got my wish: 350 pages of one story, undivided. If you have so much to say that you need 4 or 6 novellas to do it, why don’t you just write 2 or 3 novels instead? I’m just not a fan of a serialized novella format. Network Effect is the first and only Murderbot entry to date that had managed to achieved the novel length the previous 4 were novellas, and the subsequent one, Fugitive Telemetry, which will be published on 27 of April and which I’ll review next week, also reverts to this format at meagre 176 pages. ![]()
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