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Artificial Condition (Dramatized Adaptation)

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 2

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Artificial Condition (Dramatized Adaptation)

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz, Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Eric Messner, Ken Jackson, Marni Penning, Michael John Casey, Rayner Gabriel, Elena Anderson, David Cui Cui, Jeri Marshall
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Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red.

It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.

Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…

Performed by David Cui Cui, Elena Anderson, Alejandro Ruiz, Bradley Foster Smith, Carolyn Kashner, Eric Messner, Jeri Marshall, Ken Jackson, Marni Penning, Michael John Casey, Rayner Gabriel, Scott McCormick, Shanta Parasuraman and Yasmin Tuazon.

©2018 Martha Wells (P)2023 Graphic Audio LLC
Adventure Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Fiction
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Fantastic next step in the saga

You already know murder bot is going to do his thing. You are afforded a real treat finding out more about the incident that led us to the sequence of events in book one. This book is a fun ride.

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worth it

Not as good as first book but still great and worth the read. honestly dramatized was ok but stick to OG.

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Fantastic production

I used to listen to the BBC radio broadcast productions and am delighted Graphic Audio is making Martha Well’s Murderbot Diaries a full cast production. Excellent performances, true to the zeitgeist of the series, voices true to human and nonhuman. I enjoyed the Audible production of the unabridged novel and this second addition of a dramatic production by Graphic Audio is perfection.

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Great commentary on the foibles of humanity (and constructs)

David Cuicui perfectly captures the humor and sarcasm of Murderbot. I love the adaptation with full cast and effects!

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SecUnits should enunciate better

I’ve read this book before, and I listened to the first book in the series, read by a single narrator. It was very much better than this. This is the first Dramatized Adaptation that I have listened to. I actually had to give up and buy the single narrator version because SecUnit (the main character) doesn’t enunciate clearly. He drops Ts and garbles the ends of words and is just generally reading so quickly that he makes piles of mistakes. I just barely got to the part with the sentient transport and her performance was great but I just couldn’t listen to the main character any longer.

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Alright

I'm a fan of the series. I bought this with a coupon. I own the other version too and listened to it several times. There were things, elements of the story, I noticed in this recording that I hadn't noticed in the other.

The audio quality is good. The chime between chapters is super subtle, something a little more intrusive would be good. I slowed the playback down to 0.9 because the MB is read too fast.

I think the casting was better this time around. I liked A.R.T.s casting choice.

As to the book, the thing I like about the series is that the plot holes don't have time to develop into serious problems. The stories move on too quickly and end.

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great attitude for murderbot

really enjoyed the performances, nice variety in the characters; I wish the pit had been even creepier though!

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The dramatization is perfectly ok...

... Kevin R Free's performance in the original is just 1000 times better. If you are new to Murderbot, check out the original audiobook series first.

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Lacking Humor and Charm

This dramatized edition lacks the charm of the original audio book. MB sounds like it’s reading the book aloud. Instead of sounding sarcastic and/or menacing, A.R.T. is boring. I never grinned or laughed out loud even once. Very disappointed.

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Nah...

Long descriptions of scenes, weak story. Appears to be a chapter o a longer story, not one on its own.

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