From the Robokat Diaries 2 - The Process of Change
A giant transport robot helps a security unit pretend to be human? This really needs to work...
Dr. Mensah gave Robokat his freedom and a plan was born in his awakened mind. He goes to the station where he supposedly massacred most of his human clients before his memory was partially erased. And they'll find out what it was really like. But the long-distance transport on a research ship - empty and controlled by a robot - does not go as he had hoped, involving solitude, peace and dozens of hours spent watching his favourite TV shows. The transit robot named ART turns out to be a very bored and rather insistent companion, who surprises the only passenger with his multilingualism and curiosity. But you simply can't ignore someone who is driving your ship and can easily penetrate your security system. And so Robokat is forced to share with him not only his rich video library, but also the motives and goals of his journey. Eventually, he agrees to ART's suggestion to slightly alter his physical configuration, giving him a new identity and making him more like a mere enhanced human. Only later does he realise that it will now be much harder to pretend he is not a human being...
They wrote about the book:
The Process of Change is another excellent book with an engaging story and great characters (especially the non-organic ones), where everything is packed into a compact whole with minimal wasted space.
- SFBooks.com
Robokat continues to develop as a character in interesting ways, and his sarcasm (often directed at expressions of human stupidity) brings a welcome amount of humour to the story.
- from reader feedback on Goodreads.com
Martha Wells
The Texas-born American writer became seriously interested in science fiction and fantasy as a university anthropology student and is now one of the most successful authors in this field. Her debut novel was The Element of Fire in 1993, followed by the prose novels City of Bones, The Death of the Necromancer and Wheel of the Infinite. Two of these early stories take place in a realm called Ile-Rien, which later became the setting for the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, consisting of The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods. Her most extensive fantasy series is called The Books of the Raksura and includes five novels and two short story collections. The young adult genre includes the novels Emilie and the Hollow World and Emilie and the Sky World. She has also contributed to stories inspired by popular fictional worlds (Star Wars, Stargate, the card game Magic: The Gathering). She has won three of the most prestigious genre awards (Nebula, Hugo and Locus) for her 2018 novel Systems Failure and has followed it up with a series of ever-increasing prose works in the From the Diaries of Robokat series - all 7 volumes published in Czech to date - which was awarded the Hugo in 2021 and was adapted into a series of the same name in 2025. Her most recent novel to date is 2023's The Witch King, the first volume of a new fantasy series, The Rising World.
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