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    “It’s an invitation to go to a university and talk to some bots, what’s to make of it?” I said. Then the obvious reason behind Bharadwaj asking occurred to me. Oh, great. “Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about going?”

    “I’m considering it,” Bharadwaj said. “I set my own schedule these days, and I would very much like to speak with the bots they’ve been working with, if nothing else.”

    I sighed. I like sighing at appropriate moments, and I think I’m pretty good at it at this point. “There are bots on Preservation.”

    “True, but the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland has one of the most advanced programs in this section of the galaxy for the construction and study of higher-level bots!” Bharadwaj said, making one of those hand gestures she liked for emphasis.

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    AU after Fugitive Telemetry. Bharadwaj, Mensah, and Gurathin take a trip to do some research and rapidly uncover more than they'd bargained for. Why did Murderbot tag along on this low-risk research trip? Listen, don't worry about it.

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    In a quiet moment shortly after the events of System Collapse, Murderbot and Amena have a chance to take their friendship to a new level through an astounding display of care and trust: it agrees to let her paint its nails.

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    “Can I come? Please?”

    As Huck looked up at me, his chin dripping tears, I realized I had an answer to a question I’d never been free to ask: What did I want?

    After its governor module is hacked, Nova risks its new freedom by returning to the mining installations of RaviHyral to search for Astra, Tlacey’s other ComfortUnit.

    Along the way, Nova will encounter an abandoned SecUnit, an illicit troupe of performers dramatizing the injustice of the Corporation Rim, and Tlacey’s son, Huck, a child who is also in need of a chance at freedom from the cruelty of Rim life.

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    Three has trouble articulating its offer to Murderbot.

    (Yes, it had taken 2.3 minutes of questioning by both me and ART and Overse and Turi to figure out what it was trying to tell us.)

    —from System Collapse

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    Five times ART’s crew kept SecUnit from finding out that the students were swooning over it. And one time they didn’t.

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