Artificial Condition is the second entry in Martha Wells's Murderbot series, and it is just as wonderful as the first novella. Her prose is quick and snappy, easy to read and enjoy in a sitting or two. Artificial Condition follows Murderbot after it has left the team it was paired with in All Systems Red. Stowing away on a research transport, it hires itself out as a private security agent in order to get to the bottom of the events that led it to hack its governing module, a piece of hardware that should force it to follow human directives and be unaware of the world around it in any capacity beyond that of a security drone. The research transport has an AI that quickly bonds with Murderbot, much to Murderbot's occasional displeasure. The only downside to Wells's work so far has been that I found the ending, much like the first, to come too abruptly. I felt like the novella could use another twenty to thirty pages to wind down. That said, I already have the third one on request from our library.
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