I’ve been reading two books of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells recently: All Systems Red and Artificial condition. They are about a SecUnit which job it is to protect humans. Humans usually treat those bots very bad, even if they are there for protection of humans, and most of the time, the bot is in its armour suit and looks like a robot. It still consists of lots of human biological tissue and without armour it might go unnoticed in a crowd of humans. This particular SecUnit was in a very bad accident, where some humans were killed apparently and suspects its governor modul to be broken, which is why it hacked it and is now free. It calls itself a murderbot because of that accident.

Der Hugo-Award, einer der bekanntesten Literaturpreise für Science Fiction, benennt seine diesjährigen Finalisten. Es gibt mehrere Kategorien und eine davon sind Kurzgeschichten. Die Finalisten werden auf der Webseite von Hugo nur erwähnt, ich verlinke sie hier für euch:

Beste Kurzgeschichten

• “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing”, by Shiv Ramdas (Strange Horizons, 9 September 2019)
• “As the Last I May Know”, by S.L. Huang (Tor.com, 23 October 2019)
• “Blood Is Another Word for Hunger”, by Rivers Solomon (Tor.com, 24 July 2019)
• “A Catalog of Storms”, by Fran Wilde (Uncanny Magazine, January/February 2019)
• “Do Not Look Back, My Lion”, by Alix E. Harrow (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2019)
• “Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island”, by Nibedita Sen (Nightmare Magazine, May 2019)

So lässt sich das einfacher lesen. Bin gerade mächtig mit SciFi-Kurzgeschichten beschäftigt, da ich selber an welchen arbeite.