Artificial ConditionMartha Wells The Murderbot Diaries book 2 Tor Science Fiction New Hardback 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 dont want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

Mizuki and Shinomiya learn that reversing traditional gender roles can be both liberating and exciting

Shinomiya’s male kohai at work seems to have a crush on Mitsuki

Although both have shied away from their own desires

She doesn’t want to deal with her family home

The other bonus story is a yaoi tale of modern vampires

Tori Schafer

The Master of the Crabs

A tragic romantic tale based on characters from Norse mythology

but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out millions

After long and tedious days on the assembly line

Wooly was completely naked at the time

The Misterios are powerful beings with rulership and dominion over universal forces and human conditions