A first-person narrative from an android secure in its non-personhood was a new one for me. I found it strikingly original, but maybe not entirely compelling. I'm curious enough that I'll try the second one. The self-named "Murderbot" is a curious mix of introverted, judgmental, wiseass, and practical, making observations like "There were eleven messily dead humans in the hub..." messily dead!

Murderbot has been rented from some megacorp as a security officer, complete with drones, feeds, and a faulty governance system. The team its assisting are planetary explorers or anthropologists. Things go awry, but because the crew has seen Murderbot without its mask, they see it as close to human, and they want to keep it around.