'The Murderbot Diaries' author Martha Wells describes to us Murderbot's favorite shows, the state of the Corporation Rim and what's up with extraterrestrial life in the series' first novel, 'Network Effect.'
kind of thing, with people exploring. So each one has an analog like that, which helps me keep track.
People find different things to identify with the character. I've seen someone say, someplace, that you should make your characters very generic, because then more people can identify with them. But it's actually the opposite that's true: the more specific you make a character and the more specifically they talk about their fears and needs and what's happening to them, the more points people will find to identify with.
It was basically about a person who was an enslaved security person who had freed themselves and nobody knew about it and it would have to admit that to save the people it had started to like. It originally had a sad ending. I thought I would just jot down the idea, before I forgot it, and then suddenly I had written five pages—it was the scene where Dr. Mensah knocks on Murderbot's cubicle wall.
you find out a lot of these alien materials are basically considered off-limits and they're dangerous to work with or mine or use, so there's a lot of specific regulations around them—inyou really start to see why that is the case. Some of these things that they do, that people have encountered while exploring or whatever, have been extremely dangerous. So it gets a little more into that part of the world.
We also get little hints at how various economies work. In Preservation they have this separate barter system. It's clear Preservation is a counterpoint to the Corporation Rim, but do you see it as aI think this is in, but a colony had basically collapsed and was not being supplied and another ship came and moved those people to where Preservation is now and their society developed from that.
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