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AVATAR 2 gets new title and drops first footage be.ROBOTECH movie gets new director, renewed momentum.This leads to some interesting characterisation and ideas, but it does feel like we've been here before. For example, the relationship between Murderbot and another AI was exemplified by the starship AI called ART in the previous story, with Murderbot as the junior partner, but here Murderbot allies with Miki, a servitor droid treated like a pet by its owners, with Murderbot as the senior partner. It's hard to complain because Martha Wells does this stuff so well, but it's also hard to be too surprised or blown away because this is very much More of the Same (including the full novel cover price for a story that's just 150 pages long), with a few twists. Mystery, explosions and a semi-resolution which leads into the next novella in the series, Exit Strategy. If it has a problem, it's that in terms of structure we are getting the same thing we've seen before. Rogue Protocol is great because it exemplifies the best qualities of the first two novellas: a knowing sense of humour, some great characterisation and a gift for both knotty plotting and chunky action.

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells