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All Systems Red

Martha Wells

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
Mind candy science fiction. The novelty here is this nice but straight-forward story being narrated by a self-named "Murderbot", which has hacked itself to be able to ignore human commands, but just wants to be left alone to watch its "serials". This is an amusing twist, and it's a fun novella with a dry sense of humor, but I fail to grasp why so many people are so rapturous about it.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.