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Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
4.0

Awww, Murderbot!
I love this cyborg do much. Its adventures are exciting space opera that is also all about what it means to be a person:
The AIs that murderbot spends time with and the ways they are embodied, made human through treatment, have (or don’t have) autonomy or TAKE autonomy.
The humans and the ways they are indebted, contracted, restrained.
The corporations, in the very literal sense of bodies, that have authority and agency in ways that other bodies don’t.
Anyway, it can be just a story about robots and adventures and saving the world. But if you choose to engage in the rest, it’s there and glorious.