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    "title": "All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)",
    "author": "Martha Wells",
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  "consensus": "5753 mentions, the largest count in this set, and 3757 of them are on r/printSF, which treats Murderbot as close to house canon. r/suggestmeabook adds 1364, r/Fantasy 627. The Hugo sweep is real ammunition here: one comment (↑233) lists Network Effect winning Best Novel alongside other wins for the series, and the awards case gets made without much pushback.",
  "read_if": "If a security robot narrating its own trauma while streaming soap operas sounds funny rather than bleak, you're the audience. Try the first three novellas back to back rather than one at a time; that's the recommended dose, not a single sampler (↑282). Skeptics of the Apple TV+ show should know the skepticism is shared here too, not just among book purists (↑397).",
  "skip_if": "One commenter doubts the Apple TV+ show can survive without Murderbot's internal narration intact (↑397).",
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    "excerpt": "Apple TV+ actually has a pretty decent track record with shows, so I'm cautiously optimistic. My biggest worry is that what makes Murderbot special is the internal dialogue, and I'm not sure how you are gonna do that effectively on TV. And if you strip that away, the series is just some decent, but …",
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    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/18ig7wk/murderbot_series_on_appletv/kdd1y76/"
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    "editorial_caveat": "One commenter doubts the Apple TV+ show can survive without Murderbot's internal narration intact (↑397).",
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      "excerpt": "Apple TV+ actually has a pretty decent track record with shows, so I'm cautiously optimistic. My biggest worry is that what makes Murderbot special is the internal dialogue, and I'm not sure how you are gonna do that effectively on TV. And if you strip that away, the series is just some decent, but …",
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      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/18ig7wk/murderbot_series_on_appletv/kdd1y76/"
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      "excerpt": "I got one of those \"if you like X, you'll like Y\" recommendation posts and it made *City of Bones* sound like the perfect book for me. So I searched it up, bought a copy, gave it a read. Not my cup of tea, at all. A few years later, I happen to spot the same title at the library: *City of Bones*..…",
      "score": 371,
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      "published_at": "2025-12-24T07:06:41+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1puewha/a_plea_please_put_an_authors_name_when_talking/nvojld7/"
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      "excerpt": "What a great article! I had no idea she was from Texas. Sad to hear she had a signing that no one went to (I guess that is sort of a right of passage for authors?), I would have gone lol! Hope her cancer status is stable. Get your mammograms, people! The Murderbot diaries have been some of my fa…",
      "score": 303,
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      "published_at": "2024-11-26T15:49:43+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1h0e6rl/how_murderbot_saved_martha_wells_life/lz38wnz/"
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      "excerpt": "I've only read the first one, but you could knock out the first 3 Murderbot Diaries books.",
      "score": 282,
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      "published_at": "2025-12-25T01:41:37+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/1pv2dqt/i_have_to_read_three_more_books_before_january_1/nvt3w6g/"
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