{"id":2064,"date":"2026-09-26T09:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T17:27:02","slug":"artificial-condition-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Condition by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/36223860-artificial-condition\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1788878240i\/36223860.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6619644343207086;width:229px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murderbot interacts with a powerful transport AI, his first socialization. He shares his downloaded media with the transport and develops a tenuous relations ship with something he fears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a mission to learn what really happened at a remote station where he presumably killed a human party, he has to disguise himself as a human at ART&#8217;s [the transport AI: Asshole Research Transport] advice, he is forced to interact with humans in a way that is very uncomfortable to him. He moved a step toward human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murderbot interacts with a powerful transport AI, his first socialization. He shares his downloaded media with the transport and develops a tenuous relations ship with something he fears. On a mission to learn what really happened at a remote station where he presumably killed a human party, he has to disguise himself as a human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[173,294],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-science-fiction","tag-martha-wells","tag-murderbot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}