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So this is being developed by the people responsible for - variously - The Creator, American Pie, and Foundation?
Not exactly inspiring huge confidence in their ability to create thoughtful science fiction that respects and understands the core themes of the source material.
I've read the Murderbot books and enjoyed them, but I wouldn't call them deep.
The mental health journey of murderbot is pretty subtle. That would be a pretty easy thing to screw-up.
"Already, there’s been some controversy surrounding the casting of Skarsgård, a cis man, as Murderbot, an android with no sexual characteristics (because, in Murderbot’s words, why would it need them, it’s not a sex bot)."
I really hope this is a joke that's going over my head. Was the casting department supposed to rely on the wide pool of openly asexual actors?
Being asexual is an orientation, not a gender. Signed, an asexual cis male.
I haven't read this series yet but it's on my TBR. Is there some kind of actual justification for the price of these books? The combined total word count of all the books is ~350k, which is 50k words shorter than a few books I've recently read that cost $7-8 each. Meanwhile the entire Murderbot series costs $76 to purchase, most of them being 30k words for $12.
I'm lethargic on both getting around to reading it and not letting those hefty prices color my opinion if I were to read it, so I'm not sure if I ever will.
If you're worried about the cost, have you looked into getting it through your library? That's how I did it.
Yeah there's a few ways they could be acquired. I don't do Amazon or Kindle but they appear to be on Kindle Unlimited. They've also apparently been sent out for free a few times. I feel like it puts a bad taste in my mouth either way; even if I could sidestep the cost, by reading them it would still be supporting the books and therefore the gouging of others, in an indirect sense.
I don't think they're all on KU. I ended up reading them all as ebooks through the library. Had to wait for a couple of them, so just read other stuff in between.